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

Set up alerts in Proxmox before it's too late! https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/00aa74f9-54ca-441e-9021-f172e0c9ed91 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! Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:42:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co Set up alerts in Proxmox before it's too late! https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/00aa74f9-54ca-441e-9021-f172e0c9ed91 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.