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Overview
Many developers want to be automatically notified when key events happen in their apps, and not have to continually log in to a portal for information. Email and webhooks are important notification methods for that.
Events
You can choose to have email notifications automatically sent for the following events:
- Crashes:
- Immediately: when a new crash group is created
- Daily: a summary of all your new crash groups for that day will be sent at approximately 0:00 UTC
- Never: you won't receive notifications when a new crash group is created
Note
Only the top 3 crash groups based on number of occurrences will be included in the daily email.
- Distribute:
- A new version is released:
- Immediately: when a new version is released
- Daily: a summary of all your releases for that day will be sent at approximately 0:00 UTC
- Never: you won't receive notifications when a new version is released
- Adding new devices to a release failed:
- Checked: when adding new devices to a release failed
- Unchecked: you won't receive notifications when adding new devices to a release fails
- A new version is released:
Email notification preferences
App Center sends email notifications at two levels:
- App-level: Turning email notifications on and off for an app sets your preference to receive emails at the app-level. Currently, users are only able to turn email notifications on and off for themselves, not for all collaborators of the app.
- User-level: Disabling notifications at the user-level overrides app-level notification settings.
App Center sends notifications using the alias no-reply@mail.appcenter.ms.
Getting Started
User-level email notifications
Navigate to https://appcenter.ms and log in with your account information.
On the top right corner, click your user icon and select Account Settings.
In the middle panel, select Email notifications from the menu list.
In the row panel titled Receive notifications, click the toggle button to enable or disable email notifications for all your apps.
The default email notification settings at the user-level are toggled On.
App-level email notifications
App-level email notifications send information for the specific app to the user.
Navigate to https://appcenter.ms/apps, and select the app you want to configure email notifications for.
In the left panel, select Settings from the menu list.
In the row panel titled Email notifications, in the far right corner, click the pencil icon to edit your app-level email notification settings.
In the row titled Receive notifications, click the toggle button to enable or disable email notifications for the app. Select the dropdown for Crashes adn Distribute notifications to decide what events will trigger an email.
The default email notification settings at the app-level are:
- On for receiving email notifications
- Immediately for Distribute new release
- Checked for when Distribute fails to add new devices to a release
- Never for Crashes
You'll receive automatic email notifications when your selected events happen.