How to add HTML markups to alert email?

[Sasquatchatmars]

Hi all,

I have an alert which is sending an email to all users but i need to add HTML tags to the content. For example, I need to add images and make some text bold, colored and stuff like that.
When I add the tags and send the mail it doesn't work, does someone know how I could use it? I'm obligated to add it in the mail.

Thank you,

Sasquatchatmars

[wmw]

I appreciate this semi-recent thread on this subject. I'm curious what someone is intended to do in Splunk Cloud though. Like... why does the email alert configuration have 2 buttons at the bottom. 1 says "HTML & Plain Text", the other just says "Plain Text", and regardless of what occurs you just get plain text. Uh, wut?

[Sasquatchatmars · Accepted solution]

For anyone who needs an answer to this, I made a new command using the suggested changes, here , in the python script "sendemail.py". 

To do this go to: 

copy the script: splunk/etc/apps/search/bin/sendemail.py 

Go to the part where you can find:

def htmlMessageTemplate():
    return template.Template('<div style="margin: 0 20px;">${msg|h}</div>')

Change that to to the following:

def htmlMessageTemplate():
    return template.Template('<div style="margin: 0 20px;">${msg}</div>')

This way you will be able to send mails with html tags in it. If you decide to change the sendemail.py file with the above to use the integrated sendemail command, be aware that the changes will be reverted when splunk is updated. 

I hope this will help someone. 

Sasquatchatmars