Overview

Grafana is great but unless you are going to stare at monitoring panels all day and night then you might want to get some alerts. I’ve found a nice way (and free way) to setup effectively a webhook to Telegram.

Setup Telegram and Grafana Alerts

1. In Telegram search for Botfather

2. Issue the “/newbot” command

3. Enter a name for the bot

4. Enter a username for the bot

The bot will issue a API token

Add that API token to the “BOT API Token” part of Grafana alerts

5. Open a new message to the bot and type “/start”
6. Issue the following curl statement in any web browser

Replace "\<TOKEN>" with the API token

https://api.telegram.org/bot/getUpdates

Example return

{"ok":true,"result":[{"update_id":123456789,
"message":{"message_id":1,"from":{"id":1234567890,"is_bot":false,"first_name":"FIRSTNAME","last_name":"LASTNAME","language_code":"en"},
"chat":{"id":1234567890,"first_name":"FIRSTNAME","last_name":"LASTNAME","type":"private"},"date":1591782293,"text":"/start","entities":[{"offset":0,
"length":6,"type":"bot_command"}]}}]}

7. Save and test