How to configure email settings for Splunk Cloud to send alerts?

[kiran331]

What's the best practice to configure email settings on Splunk Cloud Enterprise Security (ES) and Adhoc search head to send alerts to email?

[mdasilva77340]

Hello,

Can you tell me if it's possible to modify the "mail host" on splunk cloud?

I can't modify the mail host

[esix_splunk · Accepted solution]

Splunk Cloud is configured by default to allow outbound emails. So when you say best practices, what exactly are you asking about? In the alert actions, you can enter your destination email address. This will send based on the criteria of your searches...

Check here as a starting point : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Alert/Emailnotification