Notice When Appveyor Build Activity Goes Quiet
Make missing build activity visible before it becomes a surprise in your release workflow.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
A quiet pipeline can go unnoticed until someone expects a build that never started.
- Surface apparent gaps in recent activity.
- Use a scheduled review instead of repeated manual checks.
- Make missing data explicit in the Telegram update.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Appveyor and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or explain the desired outcome to Notis from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to review available recent Appveyor build activity and message Telegram if the expected activity is absent, using a timeframe you provide.
- 4Choose notis_cron as the trigger and set the schedule.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one real activity review.
Questions about this workflow
Does Appveyor define what activity is expected?
The expected cadence or time window must be supplied in your instruction if Appveyor does not provide it.
Can this prove that no build ran?
It can report that no activity appeared in the data available to the check, but limited history or access can affect that conclusion.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Appveyor to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Appveyor triggers
Telegram actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Appveyor and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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