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For general information about alerting, see our docs on the Telegram integration and alerting with Checkly.
Sends alerts to a Telegram channel.
If you need to reference existing alert channels that were created outside of your CLI project, use fromId().

Configuration

Telegram Alert Channel Options

string
required
Friendly name to recognise the integration.
string
required
The API key associated with your Telegram bot.
string
required
The chat ID of the Telegram channel you want to send alerts to.
string
The message sent to the chat when an alert is triggered. If this is not specified, we’ll send a default payload with some basic information about the alert.We have handlebar helpers and variables available for building custom payloads.

General Alert Channel Options

These options are valid for all alert channels types.
boolean
Whether to send notifications when checks recover from a failed or degraded state. Default value is true.
boolean
Whether to send notifications when checks fail. Default value is true.
boolean
Whether to send notifications when checks become degraded. Default value is false.
boolean
Whether to send notifications when a SSL/TLS certificate is about to expire. Default value is false.
Learn more about SSL alerts.
number
Number of days before the SSL/TLS certificate expiry date to send notifications. Only relevant when sslExpiry is enabled. Default value is 30.
Learn more about SSL alerts.