Run a CircleCI release readiness poll in Telegram
Turn a routine release review into a focused readiness question your team can answer in Telegram.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Poll
Send a native poll to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Release reviews can stall when status is scattered and nobody has a simple way to signal readiness or concern.
- Collect a quick team signal in the chat where the release is discussed.
- Pair the poll with the CircleCI context available at review time.
- Make concerns visible before the team proceeds.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect CircleCI and Telegram once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Notis by name, prompt, report channel, and trigger.
- 3Tell Notis to summarize available CircleCI release context and ask a readiness question in a Telegram poll.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real release review and confirm the summary uses available information.
Questions about this workflow
Does the poll decide whether to deploy?
No. It gathers Telegram responses. Your team makes the release decision.
Can the poll include a readiness baseline?
Only if you provide that baseline or CircleCI supplies it. Notis should not infer missing criteria.
Why use a scheduled trigger?
A schedule works for planned release reviews. CircleCI has no listed trigger events in this workflow package.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Circleci to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Circleci 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.
Circleci and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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