Monitor email incoming

[Igor pember]

How do I use Prometheus to monitor email system?

For example, I want to monitor gmail, I sent email to a test account every hour, if gmail system can’t receive messages, the alerts will be raised.

Thanks 

[Christian Hoffmann]

Hi,

You would need some mechanism for sending the mail and some exporter
which verifies that this (or at least "a") mail made it through.

I could think of sending the mail via a cronjob and trying one of the
existing Gmail or IMAP exporters to verify the count:

https://github.com/jamesread/prometheus-gmail-exporter
https://github.com/camptocamp/imap-mailbox-exporter

(I don't have experience with any of them)

Kind regards,
Christian