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Postmark - Overview

Postmark - Overview

Overview

Postmark is an email delivery service for sending and tracking application emails. It offers a scalable alternative to traditional SMTP and provides essential metrics like sent, opened, bounced, and spam complaint rates. This enables efficient email management and monitoring.

To gain insights into Postmark’s broadcast and transactional message streams, integrate Postmark with Datadog using webhooks.

Setup

Follow the instructions below to configure this integration for your Postmark account.

Configuration

Enable open and link tracking in server settings for the message streams

Follow these steps to enable both features:

1. Log into your Postmark account. This redirects you to the servers page.
2. Select the desired server. This redirects you to the Message Streams page.
3. In the navigation panel, click the Settings tab.
4. In the Tracking section, enable both Open tracking and Link tracking.

Webhook configuration steps

Configure the Datadog endpoint to forward the following activity logs to Datadog:

• Broadcast message streams
• Transactional message streams

See Postmark Webhook Overview for more details.

Perform the following steps to configure the webhook for both of the message streams mentioned above.

1. Select an existing API key or create a new one by clicking one of the buttons below:
2. Log in to your Postmark account. This redirects you to the servers page.
3. Select the desired server. This redirects you to the Message Streams page.
4. On the message streams page, select an existing broadcast or transactional message stream or create a new one.
   • To create a new Broadcasts stream:
     Click the Create Message Stream button, enter a stream name, and select Broadcasts as the message type.
     OR
   • To create a new Transactional stream:
     Click the Create Message Stream button, enter a stream name, and select Transactional as the message type.
5. In the navigation panel, click the Webhooks tab.
6. Click Add Webhook.
7. Enter the webhook URL provided from step 1.
8. Choose the types of events you want to push to Datadog.
9. Click Save webhook.

Data Collected

Logs

The Postmark integration forwards the Postmark message streams activity logs to Datadog.

Metrics

Postmark does not include any metrics.

Service Checks

Postmark does not include any service checks.

Events

Postmark does not include any events.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.