Email integration for security notifications
Integrate security notifications with Dynatrace to pass security issues and/or attacks to your email account for alerting and remediation purposes.
To integrate security notifications via email, follow the instructions below.
Set up notifications for attacks
To set up notifications for attacks
Create an alerting profile
Create an alerting profile that allows you to set up alert-filtering rules that are based on the state of detected attacks.
- Go to Settings and select Alerting > Attack alerting profiles.
- Select Add alerting profile.
- Enter a Name for the profile on which you want to receive security notifications.
- Turn on the switch of any attack status for which you want to receive notifications. You can select more than one.
- Select Save changes to save your configuration.
Link the alerting profile to an email security notifications integration
Link the alerting profile to a security notifications integration via email. You can define the email integration and configure the payload (in the form of a message template) that you want to receive with your security notifications.
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Go to Settings and select Integration > Security notifications.
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Select Add integration and enter the following information.
- Security alert type: Select Attack alert.
- Notification type: Select Email.
- Display name: Enter a name for the email integration. This name will be displayed on Settings > Integration > Security notifications after you save this configuration.
- Select Add recipient to add the email address of the recipient (required), carbon copy recipient (optional), and blind carbon copy recipient (optional). The total number of email addresses mustn't exceed 50.
- Subject: Enter the title of the attack.
- Body: Enter the attack description. HTML formatting is supported.
Besides plain text, your attack description can include placeholders. Select the Info icon for a list of Available placeholders that you can use for this integration. Placeholders are automatically replaced with information related to the attack when the notification is generated.
- Alerting profile: Select the alerting profile on which you want to receive security notifications.
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optional To verify your configuration, select Send test notification. If your configuration is correct:
- You should receive a test email on your desired email account
- The following info message should be displayed on the Dynatrace settings page:
Test notification sent successfully.
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Save changes.
Example email reporting
Verify your configuration
To verify that your integration is set up correctly
- Go to Settings and select Integration > Security notifications.
- Select Details for the integration you want to check.
- Select Send test notification. If your configuration is incorrect and the test notification hasn't been sent via email, you'll receive an error message that will help you identify the problem.