Groups and direct messages
Send alerts to a shared group chat for team visibility, a direct message for personal on-call notifications, or both simultaneously.
Telegram Integration
Instant alerts to
Instant alerts to
any Telegram chat or group.
Bot-delivered monitoring alerts sent to Telegram groups or direct messages the moment something breaks — concise, fast, and available on every plan at no extra cost.
Free tier included
No credit card
2-minute setup
sq-alerts-bot DownLIVE
CHATS2
ALERTS · 7D5
AVG LATENCY1.4s
@ops-groupDOWN
@jsmith-dmOK
@infra-chatDOWN
What you get
Alerts that reach you wherever Telegram does.
Telegram's bot API delivers messages to groups or individual chats in under two seconds on any device — no app to install beyond Telegram itself, and no additional cost on any Site Qwality plan.
Formatted alert messages
Alerts use Telegram's MarkdownV2 formatting — bold monitor name, status, region list, and a clickable incident link.
Recovery notifications
A recovery message fires when the monitor comes back up, closing the loop inside the same conversation thread.
Works everywhere Telegram does
Telegram is available on iOS, Android, desktop, and web — alerts reach the device your team is currently on.
Multiple chats per account
Route different monitors to different Telegram chats — critical monitors to the on-call group, lower-severity to a general channel.
Secure bot token handling
Your Telegram bot token is stored encrypted and never exposed in the dashboard or API responses.
01 · Fast and lightweight
Sub-two-second
Sub-two-second
delivery, everywhere.
Telegram's infrastructure is fast. From the moment Site Qwality confirms a failure, the bot message typically arrives within a second or two — even on mobile data. No email lag, no push-notification queue.
- Bot API delivery typically under two seconds end-to-end
- Works on mobile, desktop, and Telegram web
- No push-notification delays — direct bot message
api.acme.com · DOWN AlertingLIVE
DURATION1m 58s
REGIONS DOWN2 / 3
HTTP CODE502
iad-1DOWN
fra-1DOWN
sin-1112ms
02 · Quick to configure
Create a bot,
Create a bot,
paste the token.
Create a Telegram bot via BotFather (takes about a minute), copy the token into Site Qwality, add the bot to your target group or start a DM, and send a test message to confirm everything is wired up.
- Create a bot with BotFather in under 60 seconds
- Paste token into Site Qwality — no other configuration
- Test delivery before saving to confirm the chat ID resolves
configure via APIPOST /v1/monitors/mtr_api/notifications
{
"channel": "telegram",
"telegram_chat_id": "-1001234567890",
"on": ["down", "recover"]
}
201 Created · test message sent
{
"channel": "telegram",
"telegram_chat_id": "-1001234567890",
"on": ["down", "recover"]
}
201 Created · test message sent
<2s
typical Telegram delivery after alert fires
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chats and groups you can connect
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Telegram integration on every plan, including free
100%
of plans include every notification channel
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Create a new bot with Telegram's BotFather (/newbot), copy the token it gives you, and paste it into Site Qwality under Settings → Integrations → Telegram. Then add the bot to your target group or send it a message to start a DM.
Yes. Each monitor can have multiple notification channels configured, so you can send the same alert to both a shared group and an individual direct message simultaneously.
Each message includes the monitor name, status (Down or Recovered), the regions that are failing, the HTTP status code or error, and a link to the incident in the Site Qwality dashboard.
Yes. When the monitor returns to healthy, a recovery message is sent to the same chat, closing the incident loop without any manual action.
Yes — all notification channels, including Telegram, are included on every plan including the free tier.
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