Integration

Uptime alerts on Telegram

A lock-screen ping when regions agree you are down — useful if on-call lives on a phone, not a desktop chat.

See pricing Setup docs

The message

What lands in Telegram

Open, ack, and resolve — not a one-line “site down” with nowhere to go.

Event

What the room sees

Who should ack

Open

A short bot message: monitor name, that it is down, link to the incident. Built to read on a lock screen.

The person whose phone this chat is. If it is a group, say in the chat topic who is supposed to tap through.

Ack

A second line that someone claimed it. There is no ack button in Telegram — you open Tallwatch from the link.

You, from the phone. If you mute the bot, this channel is decoration.

Resolve

A recover message so you know you can go back to sleep.

Nobody. If you missed the open, the resolve is how you find out in the morning.

Use this when

Why Telegram

On-call lives on a phone. You want a lock-screen ping after consensus, especially as a solo or a two-person rotation.

Not instead of

What this channel is not

A Telegram bot is not a schedule. Missed messages stay missed unless you add an escalation step to email or a webhook into your pager.

Setup

Connect Telegram

High-level steps — confirm the latest details in docs before you rely on it overnight.

Create a bot, note the token, and get the chat id for you (or a tiny on-call group).
Add Telegram as an alert channel in Tallwatch.
Attach it to a monitor or as an early escalation step — then add a later step that is not Telegram.
Send a test at night. Confirm notification settings on the phone you will actually carry.

FAQ

Telegram alerts, answered

Telegram plan limits, bot setup, and why you still add an escalation step.

Other channels

Not this one?

Email

Works at signup. Slow. Still the backup everyone forgets to add.

Discord

The community or eng server. A room, not a pager.

Webhooks

You want the JSON, not another chat app.

Telegram is on Pro — email pages you tonight

Start on Free with email. Add Telegram when the pager needs to be a lock screen.

See pricing Read the docs

--- title: "Telegram" description: "Get Tallwatch uptime incidents on Telegram after multi-region consensus. Paid plans." canonical: https://tallwatch.com/integrations/telegram url: https://tallwatch.com/integrations/telegram llms_url: https://tallwatch.com/llms.txt updated: 2026-09-04 --- Integration # Uptime alerts on Telegram A lock-screen ping when regions agree you are down — useful if on-call lives on a phone, not a desktop chat. [See pricing](https://tallwatch.com/pricing) · [Setup docs](https://docs.tallwatch.com/alerts/telegram) ## What lands in Telegram | Event | What the room sees | Who should ack | | --- | --- | --- | | Open | A short bot message: monitor name, that it is down, link to the incident. Built to read on a lock screen. | The person whose phone this chat is. If it is a group, say in the chat topic who is supposed to tap through. | | Ack | A second line that someone claimed it. There is no ack button in Telegram — you open Tallwatch from the link. | You, from the phone. If you mute the bot, this channel is decoration. | | Resolve | A recover message so you know you can go back to sleep. | Nobody. If you missed the open, the resolve is how you find out in the morning. | Use this when ## Why Telegram On-call lives on a phone. You want a lock-screen ping after consensus, especially as a solo or a two-person rotation. Not instead of ## What this channel is not A Telegram bot is not a schedule. Missed messages stay missed unless you add an escalation step to email or a webhook into your pager. Setup ## Connect Telegram High-level steps — confirm the latest details in docs before you rely on it overnight. 1. **Step 1** — Create a bot, note the token, and get the chat id for you (or a tiny on-call group). 2. **Step 2** — Add Telegram as an alert channel in Tallwatch. 3. **Step 3** — Attach it to a monitor or as an early escalation step — then add a later step that is not Telegram. 4. **Step 4** — Send a test at night. Confirm notification settings on the phone you will actually carry. ## Telegram alerts, answered Telegram plan limits, bot setup, and why you still add an escalation step. ### Is Telegram enough for on-call alone? It can wake you. Still configure escalation so a missed ack climbs to email or a webhook into your pager. ### Is Telegram on Free? No. Free includes email and Slack. Telegram is on Pro and Business. ### Do I need a Telegram bot? Yes. Create a bot, get a chat id, and paste both into Tallwatch. The Telegram alert docs walk through it. ## Telegram is on Pro — email pages you tonight Start on Free with email. Add Telegram when the pager needs to be a lock screen. [See pricing](https://tallwatch.com/pricing) · [Read the docs](https://docs.tallwatch.com/alerts/telegram)