Nagios notifications via Telegram

This post shows you how to use Telegram for Nagios notifications. First create a Telegram Bot by talking to the BotFather. The Telegram Bot will be the sender of the Nagios alerts.

telegram-botfather

You’ll receive an API token that also includes the UserID of the Bot:

  • Token: 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw
  • UserID: 200194008

Download the nagios_telegram.py script that will send the alerts via Telegram:

wget -O /usr/local/bin/nagios_telegram.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pommi/telegram_nagios/master/telegram_nagios.py
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/nagios_telegram.py

This is the configuration you need in Nagios (of course replace the token with your own):

# commands to send host/service notifications
define command {
  command_name     notify-host-by-telegram
  command_line     /usr/local/bin/telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type host --contact "$CONTACTPAGER$" --notificationtype "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" --hoststate "$HOSTSTATE$" --hostname "$HOSTNAME$" --hostaddress "$HOSTADDRESS$" --output "$HOSTOUTPUT$"
}
define command {
  command_name     notify-service-by-telegram
  command_line     /usr/local/bin/telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type service --contact "$CONTACTPAGER$" --notificationtype "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" --servicestate "$SERVICESTATE$" --hostname "$HOSTNAME$" --servicedesc "$SERVICEDESC$" --output "$SERVICEOUTPUT$"
}

# 2 example contact definitions
define contact {
  contact_name                    John Doe
  pager                           12345678
  service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-telegram
  host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-telegram
}
define contact {
  contact_name                    Telegram Group Chat
  pager                           -23456789
  service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-telegram
  host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-telegram
}

The Telegram Nagios plugin is able to send alerts to a single contact or to a group chat. As you can see Telegram GroupIDs are negative numbers.

How to get your UserID or GroupID?

Download and install this Telegram CLI: https://github.com/vysheng/tg. The CLI makes it easier to discover your UserID and GroupIDs.

$ telegram-cli
...
> get_self
User John Doe @johndoe (#12345678):
        phone: XXXXXXXXXXX
        offline (was online [2016/03/15 11:57:46])

There is your UserID (#12345678). First start a conversation with the Bot you just created to be able to receive messages (Nagios alerts) from the Bot and to be able to invite it to a Telegram group chat.

To receive Nagios alerts in a Telegram group chat, create a group chat and invite the Bot. You need at least 2 other users in the group.

$ telegram-cli
...
> create_group_chat "Nagios Alerts" user#200194008 user#12345678 user#33333333
[21:28]  Nagios Alerts John Doe created chat Nagios Alerts. 3 users


> chat_info Nagios_Alerts
Chat Nagios Alerts updated photo admin members
Chat Nagios Alerts (id 23456789) members:
                Nagios Bot invited by John Doe at [2016/03/08 21:28:59]
                ...
                John Doe invited by John Doe at [2016/03/08 21:28:59] admin

There is the GroupID (id 23456789) of the Nagios Alerts group chat which needs to be configured in the Nagios configuration as a negative number (-23456789).

Let’s send some test messages!

telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type service --contact "-23456789" --servicestate "OK" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --servicedesc "load" --output "OK - load average: 0.02 0.01 0.01"
telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type service --contact "-23456789" --servicestate "WARNING" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --servicedesc "load" --output "WARNING - load average: 3.48 4.19 2.74"
telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type service --contact "-23456789" --servicestate "CRITICAL" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --servicedesc "load" --output "CRITICAL - load average: 233.29 154.35 15.05"
telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type host --contact "-23456789" --hoststate "UNREACHABLE" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --hostaddress "2001:DB8::1" --output "Network Unreachable (hostname.domain.tld)"
telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type host --contact "-23456789" --hoststate "DOWN" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --hostaddress "2001:DB8::1" --output "PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 100%"
telegram_nagios.py --token 200194008:AAEG6djWC9FENEZaVIo3y3vZm24P3GTMetw --object_type host --contact "-23456789" --hoststate "UP" --hostname "hostname.domain.tld" --hostaddress "2001:DB8::1" --output "PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 3.74 ms

And here is the result! 😎

telegram-nagios

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