Debian 13 trixie

Munin : Email Notification2025/10/03

 

Configure Notification setting to send notification emails.

[1]

For Email notification, it needs SMTP Server.
On this example, it based on the environment that SMTP Server is running on localhost.

[2] Configure to send notifications to root account.
root@dlp:~#
apt -y install mailutils
root@dlp:~#
vi /etc/munin/munin.conf
# near line 87 : add the line

contact.email.command mail -s "Munin-notification for ${var:group}::${var:host}" root
# try to send a notification forcely

root@dlp:~#
su - munin --shell=/bin/bash -c "/usr/share/munin/munin-limits --contact email --force"

root@dlp:~#
mail

"/var/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
>N   1 munin application  Thu Oct  2 09:02  36/1503  Munin-notification for srv.world::dlp.srv.world
? 1
Return-Path: <munin@dlp.srv.world>
X-Original-To: root
Delivered-To: root@dlp.srv.world
Received: by dlp.srv.world (Postfix, from userid 101)
        id 1F772E0011; Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:02:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Munin-notification for srv.world::dlp.srv.world
To: root@dlp.srv.world
User-Agent: mail (GNU Mailutils 3.19)
Date: Thu,  2 Oct 2025 09:02:13 +0900
Message-Id: <20251002000213.1F772E0011@dlp.srv.world>
From: munin application user <munin@dlp.srv.world>

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: File table usage
        OKs: open files is 864.00.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Disk usage in percent
        OKs: /tmp is 0.00, / is 5.79, /boot is 15.35, /run is 0.14, /dev/shm is 0.00, /run/lock is 0.00.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Munin processing time
        OKs: munin graph is 0.45, munin update is 3.61.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Inode usage in percent
        OKs: /run/lock is 0.00, /run is 0.11, / is 2.82, /dev is 0.07, /tmp is 0.00, /dev/shm is 0.00, /boot is 0.58.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Disk latency per device :: Average latency for /dev/vda
        OKs: Write IO Wait time is 0.00, Read IO Wait time is 0.00.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Disk latency per device :: Average latency for /dev/debian-vg/root
        OKs: Read IO Wait time is 0.00, Write IO Wait time is 0.00.

srv.world :: dlp.srv.world :: Disk latency per device :: Average latency for /dev/debian-vg/swap_1
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[3] If you want to write alerts to a log file instead of sending an email, set it as follows:
root@dlp:~#
vi /etc/munin/munin.conf
# near line 87 : add the line

contact.log.command tee -a /var/log/munin/alert.log
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