Based on: https://github.com/lblasc/cabot-alert-slack
This is an alert plugin for the cabot service monitoring tool. It allows you to alert users using a Telegram chat room.
Enter the cabot virtual environment:
$ pip install cabot_alert_telegram $ foreman stop
or:
$ pip install git+git://github.com/codesyntax/cabot_alert_telegram.git $ foreman stop
Edit conf/*.env:
CABOT_PLUGINS_ENABLED=cabot_alert_telegram=0.2 ... TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=bot_token TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=id of the chat where messages will be sent
Add cabot_alert_telegram to the installed apps in settings.py:
$ foreman run python manage.py syncdb $ foreman start
You need to create a Telegram bot which will be used to send the messages to the users. To create a new Telegram Bot check the official documentation at https://core.telegram.org/bots
You need to create a new Group Chat, add all your users to that chatroom and add also the Bot there.
To get the chat id, open https://telegram.me and select the group chat you previously created. Check the URL, it will be something like this:
https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=g99999999
You need to not the value of p parameter (g99999999) and exchange g with a -.
This is a bit hacky, but I don't know any other way to get the group id.