Telegram alerts for uptime monitoring
Send uptime alerts to Telegram so downtime and recovery updates land in a chat your team actually reads. Great for distributed teams, quick coordination, and lightweight on-call setups.
How UpDog + Telegram works
UpDog posts to Telegram when a monitor changes state so downtime and recoveries show up in a lightweight chat that’s easy to scan. Keep messages short and route production separately from non-prod.
What the alert includes
- Service/monitor name and environment
- Down/recovery state change and timestamp
- One link back to UpDog for investigation context
Good Telegram hygiene
- Separate chats for production vs staging/dev
- Route by ownership to reduce noise
- Pair with SMS/on-call for high urgency incidents
What you can do with UpDog + Telegram
- Send Telegram uptime alerts on downtime and recovery to a chat or group.
- Share fast incident context so responders can click through to UpDog for the full timeline.
- Complement escalation channels by pairing Telegram with SMS or PagerDuty for critical monitors.
How to set it up (step-by-step)
- Create a monitor in UpDog.
- In Telegram, create or configure the destination chat/group for alerts.
- Create an alert for that monitor.
- In the alert modal, choose Telegram and connect it (commonly using a bot token and chat ID).
- Save and send a test alert to confirm the message arrives.
Best practices
Separate environments
Put production alerts in a dedicated chat. Keep staging/dev in a different room.
Lead with the service name
Monitor names matter. Make it obvious what’s broken without needing to click.
Choose an escalation path
If Telegram is informational, keep it informational. For high urgency, pair with SMS or an on-call tool.
Troubleshooting
- No Telegram alerts: verify the bot token/chat ID and confirm the bot can post in the destination chat.
- Wrong destination: check you’re using the correct chat ID for the intended room.
- Too many alerts: route fewer monitors to Telegram and tune retries/intervals.
- Telegram blocks messages: check bot permissions and any chat restrictions.
FAQ
Create an alert in UpDog, choose Telegram in the alert modal, connect a chat/group destination, save, and send a test alert.
Yes—group alerts are great for shared visibility and coordination.
Confirm the bot can post to the chat, the chat ID is correct, and the monitor’s alert is routed to Telegram.
Route only high-signal monitors, split environments, and tune check intervals/retries.
Telegram is great for visibility. SMS is better for high-urgency incidents where you can’t risk a missed notification.
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