# Alert Test Error

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/alert-test-error/18482>\
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**Created:** [November 10, 2022, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alert-test-error/18482 "2022-11-10T09:45:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![sawan\_singh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sawan_singh/32/8260_2.png) [@sawan\_singh](https://forums.percona.com/u/sawan_singh)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alert-test-error/18482/1 "2022-11-10T09:45:12Z")

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i was testing the email notification of alerting but i am getting error  
Failed to send test alert.: SMTP not configured, check your grafana.ini config file’s [smtp] section  
i have configured it but still getting the same error. Kindly help through this error

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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/alert-test-error/18482/2 "2022-11-10T10:36:25Z")

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Hi @sawan_singh

Please take a look at the next blogpost.

> **[Enable Email Sending in Percona Monitoring and Management 2 - Percona...](https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/07/07/enable-email-sending-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2/)**
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> How to enable email sending in Percona Monitoring and Management natively in Grafana for Gmail and Office 365.