Webhook to Telegram: Critical Alert Escalation
When a critical error or blocker is detected in your systems, a webhook signals Notis, which immediately posts an alert to Telegram so your team can respond in seconds, not hours.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Critical issues get buried in logs. Time-sensitive blockers need instant notification or progress grinds to a halt. Neurodivergent teams benefit from fast, clear alerts that interrupt appropriately.
- Critical issues get addressed instantly
- Faster mean-time-to-resolution
- Team knows who needs to act and why
- Reduce cascading failures from ignored errors
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram to Notis and create a critical-alerts channel.
- 2Tell Notis: 'When you receive an alert webhook from my monitoring system, evaluate the severity. If critical, post an alert to Telegram with the error, affected service, and suggested first steps.'
- 3Set the trigger to 'Notis Webhook' and give Notis the webhook URL to register.
- 4Configure your monitoring system (e.g., error tracker, uptime monitor) to send webhooks to the Notis URL when critical errors occur.
- 5Test: manually trigger a test webhook to verify the Telegram alert appears with clear, actionable information.
Questions about this workflow
How does Notis decide if an error is critical vs. informational?
You define the criteria: severity levels, error types, or affected systems. Tell Notis 'database errors are critical, logging errors are info' and it routes accordingly.
Can Notis automatically suggest fixes?
Notis can provide common remediation steps (e.g., 'restart the service' or 'clear the cache'). For complex issues, it flags them for manual review but gives your team a head start.
What if we're in a timezone where alerts wake people up?
Notis can batch critical alerts or delay non-urgent ones. You set the thresholds: this alert goes out immediately, that one waits until business hours.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Fireflies to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Fireflies triggers
Telegram actions
Transcription Complete Trigger
Triggers when a transcription is complete. Polls Fireflies API for transcripts created or updated since the last poll time. Handles rate limiting gracefully.
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.
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.
Not just Fireflies and Telegram. Any combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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