How to Customize the email template that Splunk sends in the email alert

[tusharsappal]

I only receive the similar type of email alerts , I was thinking can we customize the email alerts that we receive in our email alerts , can we add some sort of coloring and graphs in the email alert. Any other thing that can make the email alert message more customized .

Thanks in Advance

Tushar

[sdaniels]

Currently in order to customize the email alerts you will need to use a script or modify the default sendmail.py script. Here are some answers from previous questions on this topic.

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/34570/how-to-add-custom-email-alert-content
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/2641/how-do-i-customize-scheduled-search-alert-emails