Check Telegram bot readiness
Confirm the alerting bot is identifiable before you depend on it.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Bot Info
Get basic information about the bot using the bot api getme method.
Why this helps
A bot can be connected but still be misidentified or configured for the wrong chat.
- Catch bot identity issues early
- Improve alert confidence
- Reduce pre-incident uncertainty
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Better Stack and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation named Bot Readiness Check.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve Telegram bot information, compare it with the expected bot identity, and report readiness with current Better Stack on-call context.
- 4Choose notis_cron and set a schedule before coverage changes.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one real check.
Questions about this workflow
What identity should I provide?
Include the expected bot name or username in the automation instruction.
Does this send an incident alert?
It reports readiness; use a separate workflow for incident notifications.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Better stack to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Better stack 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.
Better stack and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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