Set up alerts in Proxmox before it's too late!

Setting up alerts in Proxmox is important and critical to making sure you are notified if something goes wrong with your servers. It's so easy, I should have done this years ago! In this tutorial, we'll set up email notifications using SMTP with Gmail or G Suite that send email alerts when there are disk errors, ZSF Issues, or when backup jobs run. We'll then test the alerts to make sure they are working by yoinking a drive from my ZFS pool (and hopefully it doesn't fail). Video Notes: https://technotim.live/posts/proxmox-alerts/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/technotim Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/timothystewart6 Subscribe on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/technotim Become a YouTube member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOk-gHyjcWZNj3Br4oxwh0A/join Merch Shop 🛍️: https://l.technotim.live/shop Gear Recommendations: https://l.technotim.live/gear Get Help in Our Discord Community: https://l.technotim.live/discord 2nd channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnoTimTalks A HUGE THANKS to Micro Center for sponsoring today's video. New Customer Exclusive – Free 256GB SDD: https://micro.center/24c Check out Micro Center’s PC Builder: https://micro.center/1wk Submit your build to Micro Center’s Build Showcase: https://micro.center/tvv Shop Micro Center’s Top Deals: https://micro.center/jb4 (Affiliate links may be included in this description. I may receive a small commission at no cost to you.) 00:00 - Why you should set up alerts in Proxmox 01:42 - Micro Center / Free SSD (Sponsor) 02:56 - Where can I find the documentation 03:07 - Installing and configuring dependencies 03:54 - Google Email address configuration 08:43 - Configuring postfix and customizing the email alert 11:47 - Changing the mail sender name with pcre 14:20 - Configure where email alerts are sent 15:01 - Backup Alerts 17:33 - SMART alerts 18:53 - ZFS Alerts 19:52 - Testing in Production 24:03 - How Proxmox alerts could be better 25:30 - Stream Highlight - "Just some flashing lights & music" #Proxmox #HomeLab Thank you for watching!