PRTG Notification on Bot Telegram

PRTG Nottification with telegram

Today telegram launched a new service. Telegram BOT. You can HTTP trigger this bot to send messages / photo etc.

At a older article i created a telegram bot with Linux but now its much easyer to do this.

1. First you must create a telegram account and add BotFather to you list. To do this click on the following url: https://telegram.me/botfather
2. Genrate a new bot with the command “/newbot” BotFather is then asking for a username and a normal name. After that your bot is created and you get a HTTP token. (for more options for your bot type “/help”)
3. Add your bot to telegram with the following url

http://telegram.me/

and send some text to the bot.

4. Now copy your token code and go to the following page in chrome:

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

5. You see a json code with the message you sent to the bot. Copy the Chat id. In this example that is “-9787468”

“message”:{“message_id”:7,”from”:{“id”:656556,”first_name”:”Joo”,”last_name”:”Doo”,”username”:”JohnDoo”},”chat”:{“id”:-9787468,”title”:”Telegram Group”},”date”:1435216924,”text”:”Hi”}}]}

6. Now create a new notification (setup -> account settings -> notifications). Check the “Execute http action” and put the following url in the box:

URL:

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

Postdata:

chat_id=&text=PRTG: %status %shortname %device :: %probe — %group — %commentsdevice

Now save the config and test it

Source

https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/65075-prtg-with-telegram