dmail - Send Sumo Logic dashboards via email (Support AWS SES)

A simple hack to capture a screenshot of a Sumo Logic dashboard, which is then embedded into an email.

Here is a quick teaser:

Installation

On my Ubuntu box (running Vivid) this worked:

git clone https://github.com/SumoLogic/dmail.git
cd dmail/
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install

This link was helpful: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

I also have it working on my Mac, but forgot to take notes on the installation. npm install might be all that's required tho. Happy to add instructions here if somebody wants to submit a PR.

You may need to install libfontconfig :

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

Run

Simple - run bin/dmail with a giant commandline :)

Here's what I do:

bin/dmail -u [user] -p [password] -d us2 --dashboard-id 'AWWmr1w65OKhIp9Y0lU0QYvwhoranel75MpZmqZt8hARxm4kcfrG6hD0G4us' \
          --mail-user [mail-user] --mail-password [mail-password] --mail-host smtp.gmail.com \
          -r christian@sumologic.com \
          -s john@sumologic.com \
          --mail-subject "[DMAIL] Search Summary Last 7 Day"

For SES:

bin/dmail -u [user] -p [password] -d us2 --dashboard-id 'AWWmr1w65OKhIp9Y0lU0QYvwhoranel75MpZmqZt8hARxm4kcfrG6hD0G4us' \
          --mail-user [mail-user] --mail-password [mail-password] \
          -r christian@sumologic.com \
          -s john@sumologic.com \
          --mail-subject "[DMAIL] Search Summary Last 7 Day" \
          --region 'us-east-1' \
          --ses

Here's the full explanation of the commandline arguments. Note that all parameters are required!

  Usage: dmail [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help                      output usage information
    -V, --version                   output the version number
    -u, --user <user>               user to log in as to Sumo Logic
    -p, --password <password>       password for logging in
    -d, --deployment <deployment>   name of the Sumo Logic deployment for logging in
    --dashboard-id <dashboardId>    ID of the dashboard to email
    --mail-user <mailUser>          mail user to log in as or access key
    --mail-password <mailPassword>  password of the mail user or secret key
    --mail-host <mailHost>          mail host to send email
    --mail-subject <mailSubject>    the subject of the email
    -r, --receiver <receiver>       address of the receiver of the email
    -s, --sender <sender>           address of the sender of the email (from)
    --region <region>               AWS SES region (default us-east-1)
    --ses                           Use AWS SES to send the email

The all-important dashboard ID can be gleaned from the URL for the dashboard: