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I use django-anymail as the email backend. It hooks into Django and allows you to easily swap in and swap out different email providers. That way you're provider agnostic and can avoid vendor lock-in. Did Sendgrid hike their prices? Change three lines of code and use Amazon SES.
The hard job has already been done by Kristian Oellegaard who built a health checking app for Django.
If you want something self-hosted and you're using Prometheus the Blackbox exporter is the way to go.
I like Prometheus and Grafana which take time to learn, but are incredibly powerful. The open source community around these tools is strong and there are plugins available for everything from Django to Bitcoin prices.
You also need to configure an email server. Given how difficult it is to configure your own server I usually use third-party API's for this. Mailgun and Sendgrid are cheap and easy to integrate.
Prometheus stores data in a custom format and provides it's own metrics SDK's. Uriel Corfa has done the heavy lifting for us by writing an app which hooks into the Django middleware, ORM and cache layer and automatically exposes metrics generalized metrics. All you need to do is to install and configure django-prometheus.
Since Celery tasks are executed outside of the Django context we need to monitor Celery separately from Django. I use Prometheus extensively, so much so that I wrote my own exporter for Celery metrics.
You also need to configure an email server. Given how difficult it is to configure your own server I usually use third-party API's for this. Mailgun and Sendgrid are cheap and easy to integrate.