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-# Telegram Agent alert notifications
+<!--startmeta
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+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-->
-Learn how to send notifications to Telegram using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
+# Telegram
-> ### Note
->
-> This file assumes you have read the [Introduction to Agent alert notifications](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md), detailing how the Netdata Agent's alert notification method works.
-[Telegram](https://telegram.org/) is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers.
+<img src="https://netdata.cloud/img/telegram.svg" width="150"/>
-Telegram messages look like this:
-<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/66612223-f07dfb80-eb75-11e9-976f-5734ffd93ecd.png" width="50%"></img>
+Send notifications to Telegram using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
-Netdata will send warning messages without vibration.
-## Prerequisites
-You will need:
+<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/maintained%20by-Netdata-%2300ab44" />
-- 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`.
+## Setup
- 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
+### Prerequisites
-## Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to Telegram
+####
-> ### Info
->
-> This file mentions editing configuration files.
->
-> - To edit configuration files in a safe way, we provide the [`edit config` script](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) located in your [Netdata config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory) (typically is `/etc/netdata`) that creates the proper file and opens it in an editor automatically.
-> Note that to run the script you need to be inside your Netdata config directory.
->
-> It is recommended to use this way for configuring Netdata.
+- 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
-Edit `health_alarm_notify.conf`, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata:
-1. Set `SEND_TELEGRAM` to `YES`.
-2. Set `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` to your bot token.
-3. 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`.
- All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.
-You can then have different chats per **role**, by editing `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM` with the chat ID you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:
+### 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 | True |
+| TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN | set `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` to your bot token. | | True |
+| 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. | | True |
+
+##### 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"
@@ -55,17 +73,46 @@ role_recipients_telegram[proxyadmin]="49999333344"
role_recipients_telegram[sitemgr]="49999333876"
```
-An example of a working configuration would be:
-```conf
+</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"
```
-## Test the notification method
+Note that this will test _all_ alert mechanisms for the selected role.
+
-To test this alert notification method refer to the ["Testing Alert Notifications"](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md#testing-alert-notifications) section of the Agent alert notifications page.