Alertmanager telegram bot

Yet another Prometheus alertmanager’s telegram bot

WARNING: this project uses the old Telegraf v3 library, and won’t be
updated to v4.

About
Getting Started
Usage
Contributing

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A bot that uses some fancy features from telegram as inline keyboards and replies
to messages instead of the boring slash commands.

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You can setup the bot using those environment variables:

variable	default	description
TELEGRAM_ADMINS	`undefined`	comma-separated telegram user IDs, which the bot will talk to
TELEGRAM_TOKEN	`undefined`	your bot token
TEMPLATE_FILE	`default.tmpl`	template file path to use for messages
EXTERNAL_URL	`http://127.0.0.1:9093`	endpoint to register the webhook on Telegram (useful for reversed-proxy deployments)
INTERNAL_URL	`undefined`	alertmanager URL to send API requests (default: uses `externalURL` provided on the alert)
ALERTMANAGER_DB_PATH	`data/alertmanager`	database path for alertmanager graph storage (LevelGraph)
ALERTS_DB_PATH	`data/alerts`	database path for alert storage (LevelDB)

Prerequisites

If running locally, nodejs and yarn, and install all dependencies:

yarn install

Otherwise you can use docker:

docker build -t wwmoraes/alertmanager-telegram-bot .

message template

For formatting messages the bot uses doT + a
linebreak replacement. You can provide a custom template file by mounting your file
as a volume + setting the path on TEMPLATE_FILE. All br HTML tags will be
replaced by line breaks.

using it as a module on another bot

The alertmanager logic is also available as a Telegraf module to be used on other
bots. You can do so with

import {
  AlertManagerContext,
  AlertManagerMiddleware,
  setupAlertManagerContext,
} from "./AlertManager";
interface YourBotContext extends AlertManagerContext {}
const bot = new Telegraf<YourBotContext>("your-bot-token");
setupAlertManagerContext(bot);
bot.use(AlertManagerMiddleware);

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yarn start

docker run --rm -it --env-file=.env -p 8443:8443 wwmoraes/alertmanager-telegram-bot

The bot itself is very straightforward, and does most of the actions using inline
keyboards. You can enroll yourself to receive the AM alerts using /start 😄

Slash commands

The alertmanager middleware uses no slash commands, and instead automatically
registers the given user IDs to receive notifications.

If using the full bot from this repository, then you can use:

/start - registers yourself to receive the alerts
/help - well, halp 😂

It also responds to hi and stickers as a “health check”.