How to create a Grafana bot for Telegram

Grafana-TelegramBot-HowTo.md

Set up a Telegram Bot

1. Go to Grafana > Alerting > Notification channels > New channel.
2. Type: Telegram. It will ask you for a Bot API Token and a Chat ID.
3. Open a chat with BotFather on Telegram.
4. Type /newbot
5. Type your bots name. e.g. Grafana Bot
6. Type your bots username. e.g. a_new_grafana_bot
7. You get your Bot API Token. Paste it on Grafana.
8. Before making getUpdates (in the next step) you should add your bot into your telegram client and run /start. Thus you start chatting with the bot and this room is assigned chat id. (Thanks to @KES777)
9. Open this URL address, substituing YOUR_API_TOKEN_KEY with yours: https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR_API_TOKEN_KEY>/getUpdates
10. The response may look like this: {"ok":true,"result":[{"update_id":BLA_BLA_BLA", chat":{"id":[CHAT_ID],"title".... Copy that CHAT_ID, even with the minus sign.
11. Paste it on Grafana.
12. Test it click on Send Test. You can test it using Telegram API too, just substitute the parameters with your API Token and Chat ID: https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_API_TOKEN/sendMessage?chat_id=YOUR_CHAT_ID&text=a_message

Links

• Grafana
• Telegram Bots
• Telegram Bots API

Thank you for the post.
We have cited your article as a help to our project.

https://github.com/dsrvlabs/mina-performance-dashboard

You have to send a message/open the chat to the bot in order to create the chat id

i got this message when i do step no 8. it's this correct?

No this isn't correct. You have to replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN_KEY> in the URL by your Bot API Token from step 7.
If your token for example is 123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11, then the URL should look something like:

https://api.telegram.org/bot123456:ABC-DEF1234ghIkl-zyx57W2v1u123ew11/getUpdates

Is this instruction outdated? I have no Notification channels in Grafana 8.3.6

Screenshot

UPD
Fixed with disabling so called "Unified alerting"

[unified_alerting]
enabled = false

I have next response: {"ok":true,"result":[]}

Before making getUpdates you should add your bot into your telegram client and run /start. Thus you start chatting with bot and this room is assigned chat id.

Thanks @KES777 this worked