Zabbix Telegram Notifications
This section is part of Zabbix & Elrond Guide
To receive notifications on telegram we’ll need to create a new Telegram bot and start a chat with it. Don’t worry it’s a very intuitive process. The Bot is private and no one will use it except you.
CREATE YOUR TELEGRAM BOT
Open your telegram app and search for the user @BotFather and write this message:
/newbot
This is a command that tells the Bot Father to create you a new bot, choose your bot nick carefully as you will need it later. Take note of it. And you will receive too a new HTTP API look at this example:
The boot HTTP API String it is something like the “from” field on an email.
GET YOUR OWN TELEGRAM ID
In order to be able to configure your user on Zabbix and configure sending messages to you, you will need your own id on telegram. Is something like “to” field on email.
You will need to search on telegram users for the bot @myidbot and send to it this two messages:
/start
/getid
And you will see something looking like this example:
Now the last part, search for your new bot user created, maybe you called it “ZabbixBot760”, and send this message to him:
/start
CREATING A MEDIA TYPE
You must download the official Telegram Webhook, For this you must download the current api project in .zip
Unzip it and look for folder templates/media/telegram
There you will see a media_telegram.xml file
Open Zabbix frontend and go to Administration —> Media types and click on Import and select its new xml that we just find. When it’s imported we need to go again to Administration —> Media types to click on the new Telegram Media type and edit it.
On the ParseMode field you must write Markdown
You must edit only the field telegramToken and write the HTTP API of your bot. You have it noted from before.
Click on Update and remember to test your new Media type, from the Media Types list to the left you have “Test” link. Try it, remember to use on “To” field your telegram id (the one of your own user). This way the bot will write to you directly.
SETUP YOUR USER
Remember to go to Administration —> Users and edit your user (Admin) in Media types tab Add Telegram. The field “To” must be your id in telegram, the same that you used in the test.
Maybe you need to try a few times before you get it working.