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-title: "Telegram"
-sidebar_label: "Telegram"
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-learn_status: "Published"
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-
-# Telegram
+# Telegram Agent alert notifications
+
+Learn how to send notifications to Telegram using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
+
+> ### 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.
-With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 100,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. You can write to your phone contacts and find people by their usernames. As a result, Telegram is like SMS and email combined — and can take care of all your personal or business messaging needs.
+Telegram messages look like this:
+
+<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/66612223-f07dfb80-eb75-11e9-976f-5734ffd93ecd.png" width="50%"></img>
Netdata will send warning messages without vibration.
-You need to:
+## Prerequisites
+
+You will need:
+
+- 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`.
-1. Get a bot token. To get one, contact the [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) bot and send the command `/newbot`. Follow the instructions.
-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`
-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"
-DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM="-100233335555"
-```
+- terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure
-You can define multiple recipients like this: `"-100311112222 212341234|critical"`.
-This example will send:
+## Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to Telegram
-- All alerts to the group with ID -100311112222
-- Critical alerts to the user with ID 212341234
+> ### 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.
-You can give different recipients per **role** using these (in the same file):
+Edit `health_alarm_notify.conf`, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata:
-```
-role_recipients_telegram[sysadmin]="212341234"
-role_recipients_telegram[dba]="-1004444333321"
-role_recipients_telegram[webmaster]="49999333322 -1009999222255"
+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:
+
+```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"
```
-Telegram messages look like this:
+An example of a working configuration would be:
-![Netdata notifications via Telegram](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1153921/66612223-f07dfb80-eb75-11e9-976f-5734ffd93ecd.png)
+```conf
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# telegram (telegram.org) global notification options
+
+SEND_TELEGRAM="YES"
+TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="111122223:7OpFlFFRzRBbrUUmIjj5HF9Ox2pYJZy5"
+DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM="-100233335555"
+```
+## Test the notification method
+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.