OBSDOCS-1862: Add missing info about alert emails

Author: eromanova97

modules/monitoring-configuring-alert-routing-console.adoc

@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ Alternatively, you can go to the same page through the notification drawer. Sele
 +
 .. Add SMTP configuration details, including the address to send notifications from, the smarthost and port number used for sending emails, the hostname of the SMTP server, and authentication details.
 +
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+Alertmanager requires an external SMTP server to send email alerts. To configure email alert receivers, ensure you have the necessary connection details for an external SMTP server.
+====
++
 .. Select whether TLS is required.
 +
 .. Click *Show advanced configuration* if you want to edit the default option not to send resolved alerts to the receiver or edit the body of email notifications configuration.

modules/monitoring-configuring-alert-routing-default-platform-alerts.adoc

@@ -85,14 +85,45 @@ receivers:
 - name: watchdog
 - name: team-frontend-page
   pagerduty_configs:
-  - routing_key: ABCD01234EFGHIJ56789
-    http_config: # <1> 
+  - routing_key: ABCD01234EFGHIJ56789 # <1>
+    http_config: # <2> 
       proxy_from_environment: true
       authorization:
         credentials: xxxxxxxxxx
 # ...
 ----
-<1> Optional: Add custom HTTP configuration for a specific receiver. That receiver does not inherit the global HTTP configuration settings.
+<1> PagerDuty integration key.
+<2> Optional: Add custom HTTP configuration for a specific receiver. That receiver does not inherit the global HTTP configuration settings.
++
+--
+.Example of configuring email as an alert receiver
+[source,yaml]
+----
+# ...
+receivers:
+- name: default
+- name: watchdog
+- name: team-frontend-page
+  email_configs:
+    - to: [email protected] # <1>
+      from: [email protected] # <2>
+      smarthost: 'smtp.example.com:587' # <3>
+      auth_username: [email protected]  # <4>
+      auth_password: password
+      hello: alermanager # <5>
+# ...
+----
+<1> Email address to send notifications to.
+<2> Email address to send notifications from.
+<3> SMTP server address used for sending emails, including port number.
+<4> Authentication credentials that Alertmanager uses to connect to the SMTP server. This example uses username and password.
+<5> The hostname to identify to the SMTP server. If you do not include this parameter, the hostname defaults to `localhost`.
+--
++
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+Alertmanager requires an external SMTP server to send email alerts. To configure email alert receivers, ensure you have the necessary connection details for an external SMTP server.
+====
 
 .. Add the routing configuration:
 +