Visualizing the outcomes of the analytics as alerts

This section outlines the procedure for setting up the notifications about database values exceeding preset limits. Such notifications can be received in one of the following ways—by email or via a Slack channel. Additionally, you can configure alerts in Grafana.

Configuring email notifications

To configure email notifications, proceed as follows:

• Specify the credentials (email address, host) of the SMTP server
• Change the alertFrom value in the index.js file to a required limit value

Once you have completed this configuration, you will start getting emails, whenever some of the values exceed a specified limit:

An alert displayed in a mail client

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