Introduction

Plesk sends a variety of system notifications to help administrators stay informed about important events such as updates, server warnings, resource usage alerts, backup results, and customer activity. Properly configuring these notifications ensures that you receive timely updates without being overwhelmed by unnecessary messages.

Plesk allows you to manage which notifications are sent, who receives them, and whether they are delivered via email or logged internally. You can also customize message content and specify recipients for both administrator and user-level notifications.

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of managing notification settings in Plesk.

Getting Started

First and foremost, make sure you are logged in to your Plesk control panel. To perform that, please enter your IP address, hostname, or domain name inside your web browser’s search bar and add “:8443” at the end. It should look something like: “https://yourdomain.com:8443”. By doing so, you will be prompted by a login form that requests your username and password.

After logging in with your username and password, Plesk will automatically display the “Websites & Domains” page, which will serve as the index page from where you can manage everything related to your websites and domains on Plesk.

Accessing the Notification Settings

To open the notification configuration page, please point your attention to the left side of the screen, and from the multiple options, please click on “Tools & Settings”.

Performing that will redirect you to a page containing a large variety of tools that you can use to fine-tune your Plesk server. To go to the Notifications Settings, please click on the “Notifications” functionality, located underneath the “Plesk” section.

Upon landing on that page, you will see a table section containing a list of all available system events that can trigger notifications.

Understanding Notification Types

Plesk provides notifications for a wide range of events, such as:

• System updates - These notifications are typically related to updates on your Plesk server.

• Backup completion or failure - These notifications are typically related to the backup completion or failure on your Plesk server.

• Disk space usage warnings - These notifications are typically related to the disk space utilization on your Plesk server.

• Expiring certificates - These types of notifications are typically related to the expiring SSL certificates on your Plesk server.

• Mail server issues - These types of notifications are typically related to email issues on your server, such as delivery failures.

• Service errors - These types of notifications are typically related to the service errors, such as web server errors, database errors, and nginx errors.

• User account creation or deletion - These types of settings are usually related to user account creation or deletion.

• Scheduled task failures - These types of settings are usually related to failure or completion for your cron jobs.

These events are split into two categories - Email and Plesk UI. Let’s go over the Email category first, which is, of course, under the “Email” tab.

As we mentioned earlier, the notifications will be displayed in a table section with a few columns, allowing you to enable or disable notifications for specific users.

• Event - Under this column, you will see the event that will trigger the notifications.

• Send notice to: Administrator/Reseller/Customer - Under this column, you will have a checkbox which you can tick to send a notification to a specific Pleks user - the administrator, the reseller, or the customer. You can tick all of them at once, or you can pick whichever you want to receive the actual notification.

• Email address - Under this column, you will see a checkbox and a text field. If the checkbox is ticked, you can enter an email address that will receive a notification about the event.

• Actions - Under this column, you will see two action buttons: the first allows you to create an email template for the specific event, and the second lets you view the email itself so you can decide if you like it.

• Edit Notice - Please click on the edit notice button, which resembles a pencil, to open a side menu that lets you modify it. You can edit the subject and the text itself. In addition to using standard text, you can also use HTML and CSS to add styling to your notice and make it more “noticeable”. Once you are done editing, you can press the “OK” button at the bottom of the pop-up window. If you are not happy with the result, you can always revert the changes by pressing the “Reset to default” button located on the right side of the “OK” button.

• Show how the notification looks - Please press the button resembling an eye to view how the notice will look in another browser tab. 

Each notification type includes options to control how messages are delivered. Now that we have gone over the ”Email” Tab, let’s explore the “Plesk UI” one. 

To access the settings underneath it, please press the “Plesk UI” tab, located on the right side of the “Email” tab.

All notifications in this tab are system-related and will only be sent to the user account with administrative rights. 

The options here are more limited. They include the notification type, the context, and a slider at the end that enables or disables it.  Please click off the slider if you wish to disable these notifications for your administrative users.

Conclusion

As you can see, Plesk makes it easy to manage system notifications and control how alerts are delivered to both administrators and customers. By customizing these settings, you can ensure that you receive timely updates while avoiding unnecessary messages. Proper notification management helps maintain a smooth and well-monitored hosting environment.

We hope this tutorial was helpful, and we kindly encourage you to periodically review your notification settings to ensure they match your operational needs.