Hello, is there a way to set up email alerts from Grafana version that gets shipped with ShinyProxy Operator for Docker hosts?
I noticed in the environment variables of the grafana oss container, GF_UNIFIED_ALERTING_ENABLED is set to false, so it seemed like a deliberate decision to disable this. Is there any way to enable this or add this as a feature request for a future version of shinyproxy operator?
Hi
We indeed disabled this functionality. The reason is that we preferred to have the Grafana setup stateless. Such that it’s easy to restart or re-create the Grafana container, without having the risk of a corrupt state. This should also make it easier to update the Grafana image.
We could make it configurable, and allow users to make changes in Grafana. However, it might then be important for users to also backup the grafana data directories.
What kind of alerts would you like to add? In the future, we might add some native alerting to ShinyProxy. For example, if an app crashed or an app failed to startup. Implementing it in Grafana, would allow sending a bit more context or to easily rate-limit the sending of alerts. Of course this is also possible in Grafana, but the user experience might be better if we implement it directly in ShinyProxy.
This is still only a plan, the implementation hasn’t started yet.