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# Telegram
[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.
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2. Start a conversation with your bot or invite it into a group where you want it to send messages.
3. Find 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`
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+4. Set the bot token and the chat ID of the recipient in `/etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf` (to edit it on your system run `/etc/netdata/edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf`), like this:
```
SEND_TELEGRAM="YES"
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="111122223:7OpFlFFRzRBbrUUmIjj5HF9Ox2pYJZy5"