# Do we need internet access for pmm email alerting?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Created:** [January 5, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794 "2022-01-05T10:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpryg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jpryg/32/4788_2.png) [@jpryg](https://forums.percona.com/u/jpryg)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794/1 "2022-01-05T10:27:38Z")

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Do we need internet access for pmm email alerting? i’m using alertmanager method  
my pmm-server internet access is disabled

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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:** [January 5, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794/2 "2022-01-05T13:04:08Z")

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Hi Aji,

If you have a SMTP email server in you intranet than it can be used.

> **[Integrated Alerting - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/using/alerting.html)**
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> Documentation

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**Author:** ![jpryg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jpryg/32/4788_2.png) [@jpryg](https://forums.percona.com/u/jpryg)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794/3 "2022-01-05T14:24:48Z")

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Hi Adivinho,

Yes, we have SMTP server, so our pmm server and all the nodes doesn’t need internet?

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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:** [January 6, 2022, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/do-we-need-internet-access-for-pmm-email-alerting/13794/4 "2022-01-06T09:24:54Z")

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> [@jpryg](#):
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> so our pmm server and all the nodes doesn’t need internet?

Yes, PMM Server instance can work without the Internet.