Pipe Alertmanager alerts into Telegram

Enterno.io Editorial Team

Prometheus + Alertmanager only ship alerts to email or PagerDuty. The team lives in Telegram and you need a bridge without spinning up another service.

Stack: Prometheus · Alertmanager · Telegram Tags: prometheus, alertmanager, telegram

Recipe

yaml

# alertmanager.yml — Telegram receiver via the official telegram_configs.
# Bot token from @BotFather, chat_id from getUpdates after /start in the chat.

route:
  group_by: ['alertname']
  receiver: 'telegram-default'
  routes:
    - matchers: [severity="critical"]
      receiver: 'telegram-oncall'

receivers:
  - name: 'telegram-default'
    telegram_configs:
      - bot_token: '<BOT_TOKEN>'
        chat_id: -1001234567890
        parse_mode: 'HTML'
        message: '{{ .CommonAnnotations.summary }}'
  - name: 'telegram-oncall'
    telegram_configs:
      - bot_token: '<BOT_TOKEN>'
        chat_id: -1001111222333
        parse_mode: 'HTML'

Same thing in Enterno.io

If you do not need full Prometheus yet, point a URL at an Enterno monitor — the Telegram bot links with a single /link command. No alertmanager, no webhook server.

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