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diff --git a/health/notifications/telegram/README.md b/health/notifications/telegram/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..315bd9b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/health/notifications/telegram/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +<!--startmeta +custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/telegram/README.md" +meta_yaml: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/telegram/metadata.yaml" +sidebar_label: "Telegram" +learn_status: "Published" +learn_rel_path: "Alerting/Notifications/Agent Dispatched Notifications" +message: "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY, IT IS GENERATED BY THE NOTIFICATION'S metadata.yaml FILE" +endmeta--> + +# Telegram + + +<img src="https://netdata.cloud/img/telegram.svg" width="150"/> + + +Send notifications to Telegram using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more. + + + +<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/maintained%20by-Netdata-%2300ab44" /> + +## Setup + +### Prerequisites + +#### + +- A bot token. To get one, contact the [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) bot and send the command `/newbot` and follow the instructions. Start a conversation with your bot or invite it into a group where you want it to send messages. +- The chat ID for every chat you want to send messages to. Contact the [@myidbot](https://t.me/myidbot) bot and send the `/getid` command to get your personal chat ID or invite it into a group and use the `/getgroupid` command to get the group chat ID. Group IDs start with a hyphen, supergroup IDs start with `-100`. +- Alternatively, you can get the chat ID directly from the bot API. Send your bot a command in the chat you want to use, then check `https://api.telegram.org/bot{YourBotToken}/getUpdates`, eg. `https://api.telegram.org/bot111122223:7OpFlFFRzRBbrUUmIjj5HF9Ox2pYJZy5/getUpdates` +- Terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure + + + +### Configuration + +#### File + +The configuration file name for this integration is `health_alarm_notify.conf`. + + +You can edit the configuration file using the `edit-config` script from the +Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory). + +```bash +cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata +sudo ./edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf +``` +#### Options + +The following options can be defined for this notification + +<details><summary>Config Options</summary> + +| Name | Description | Default | Required | +|:----|:-----------|:-------|:--------:| +| SEND_TELEGRAM | Set `SEND_TELEGRAM` to YES | YES | yes | +| TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN | set `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` to your bot token. | | yes | +| DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM | Set `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM` to the chat ID you want the alert notifications to be sent to. You can define multiple chat IDs like this: 49999333322 -1009999222255. | | yes | + +##### DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM + +All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured. + +The `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_CUSTOM` can be edited in the following entries at the bottom of the same file: + +```conf +role_recipients_telegram[sysadmin]="49999333324" +role_recipients_telegram[domainadmin]="49999333389" +role_recipients_telegram[dba]="-1009999222255" +role_recipients_telegram[webmaster]="-1009999222255 49999333389" +role_recipients_telegram[proxyadmin]="49999333344" +role_recipients_telegram[sitemgr]="49999333876" +``` + + +</details> + +#### Examples + +##### Basic Configuration + + + +```yaml +#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +# telegram (telegram.org) global notification options + +SEND_TELEGRAM="YES" +TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="111122223:7OpFlFFRzRBbrUUmIjj5HF9Ox2pYJZy5" +DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM="-100233335555" + +``` + + +## Troubleshooting + +### Test Notification + +You can run the following command by hand, to test alerts configuration: + +```bash +# become user netdata +sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata + +# enable debugging info on the console +export NETDATA_ALARM_NOTIFY_DEBUG=1 + +# send test alarms to sysadmin +/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test + +# send test alarms to any role +/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test "ROLE" +``` + +Note that this will test _all_ alert mechanisms for the selected role. + + |