# How to Set Up Email Alerts in Proxmox for Disk, Backup, SMART, and ZFS Events

DevFeed: [How to Set Up Email Alerts in Proxmox for Disk, Backup, SMART, and ZFS Events](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/set-up-alerts-in-proxmox-before-it-s-too-late-10637.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/proxmox-alerts/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2022-12-17T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Proxmox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proxmox.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>)

Tags: [account](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/account.md>), [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [jobs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jobs.md>), [proxmox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxmox.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [test](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on configuring Proxmox email notifications through SMTP with Gmail or G Suite. It covers alerts for disk errors, backup jobs, SMART events, and ZFS issues, then tests that the notifications work.

## Source excerpt

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 ar...