Website monitoring with Telegram alerts

Uptimia checks your sites, certificates and checkout flows from outside your network and sends every confirmed failure to the Telegram chat you name. It arrives as a push notification on every device you are signed in to — the monitor and how long it has been down readable before you unlock the screen.

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Setup guideConnecting the Telegram bot, step by step Open the guide

An email alert waits until you open your inbox

Most monitoring sends downtime news by email, and an inbox gets opened a few times a day. Between the moment the alert is sent and the moment somebody reads it, the site is down and nobody who could fix it knows.

Alert by email

The alert that waits in a queue

Shop down
16:42 · alert sent
sits unread
Inbox, position 23
under invoices & newsletters

The alert did fire — technically. But an inbox gets opened a few times a day, and a subject line saying URGENT doesn’t buzz in your pocket while you’re out living a Saturday.

Alert by Telegram

The alert that buzzes

Shop down
16:42 · bot messages you
push · buzz
Your lock screen
phone · desktop · watch

Telegram pushes the same message to every device signed into your account — phone, desktop, tablet. It arrives as a notification, not as row 23 of a list, and the monitor name and failure time are readable on the lock screen without opening anything.

The fix isn’t refreshing your inbox more often. It’s sending downtime news where your eyes already are. The same outage, end to end:

One outage, from the failed check to the all-clear

The check fails while nobody is at a desk. The alert lands in the chat, one tap acknowledges it from the phone, and the recovery posts to the same thread with the total downtime.

16:42 The shop times out — Nadia’s phone buzzesRe-tested from 3 other checkpoints — then the alert posts Uptimia Alerts
16:44 She taps the acknowledge link in the messageSigned link, no login — the SMS step never fires on a park bench
16:51 The service gets restarted — from a phoneSSH app and the hosting panel’s mobile view — the fix fits in a pocket same bench
17:03 ✅ UP after 21 minutes — in the same chatRecovery message with total downtime — the client never noticed Uptimia Alerts
21 mindown → up
The whole incident fit on one screen0 laptops
The alert rode a consumer messenger to a park bench. The acknowledge link was inside the message, and the fix happened on the same phone. Monitoring that assumes a desk would still be waiting to be read.
3 checkpoints agreedacknowledged from the messagedown 21 minlaptop never opened
No pager, no inbox, no phone tree. The acknowledgement at 16:44 stopped the SMS ladder before it ever fired. ladder stopped

Connect Telegram in three steps

There is nothing to build and nothing to host — Uptimia has its own bot. Add it to a chat, point your monitors at it, and the alerts start with the next check.

Step 12 min

Add the Uptimia bot to your chat

Invite the bot into the chat your team already reads — it only posts, it cannot read a thing.

@uptimia_bot Send test
test message arrives in the chat · wiring proven
Step 21 min

Point your monitors at that chat

Pick the checks that should post there — all of them, or just the ones that matter to that group.

Alert this monitor to
@caldmont_alertsMy own chatEmail
Shop — caldmont.com → messages @caldmont_alerts
Step 3optional

Back it up if nobody answers

If the message goes unacknowledged, Uptimia moves on to the next person.

How escalation ladders work →
If nobody acknowledges — escalate
Telegram → +5 min SMS to your phone → +15 min backup contact
maintenance windows muted · quiet hours per person
Technical setup guide

Connect Telegram to Uptimia

The whole sequence, in the Help Center: starting the chat with the bot, getting the ID for a group or a channel, and attaching Telegram to your monitors.

Open the setup guide → help.uptimia.com

Everything you monitor, in one chat

A homepage ping only proves the homepage. Uptime, checkout flows, certificates, domains, DNS answers, API chains, servers, cron heartbeats, malware and blacklist scans, page speed and real-user data — every one of them can post to the same chat.

Uptime checksEvery page, checked constantly
SSL certificatesCert expiry — weeks of warning
Domain expiryDomain renewals, remembered
Server metricsCPU, disk and RAM thresholds
1 telegram chat Uptimia Alerts — every monitor type posts here
Heartbeats & cronBackups that stop pinging
TransactionsCheckout replayed in Chrome
Malware & blacklistsInfected files, DNSBL listings
Page speed & RUMSlowdowns and real visitor data
Whichever check trips, the buzz is the same — one chat becomes the single place bad news arrives, whatever broke. every check · one chat

Send each alert to the chat that should see it

A chat that mixes a real outage with a weekly performance report is a chat people mute. Keep the outages where they buzz, put a client’s sites in the group you already share with them, and send the warnings and the numbers somewhere quieter.

Your own chat
Everything urgent, buzzing in your pocket.
Uptime & HTTP checks
Checkout & transaction flows
Server metrics & heartbeats
urgent · notification sound on
The client’s group
The group where you and the client already talk.
Their site’s uptime
SSL certificate expiry
Domain renewal dates
shared · the client sees you knew first
A broadcast channel
Post-only: numbers people skim, nobody replies.
Page speed & Core Web Vitals
Marketing-page uptime
Blacklist & malware checks
informational · muted is fine
Some alerts should leave chat entirely? They also reach SlackMS TeamsDiscordPagerDutyWhatsAppEmail & SMS

Bad news travels fast.Point it at your Telegram.

The full platform during your trial — every monitor type, messaging the chat you choose.

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What sits behind the alert

The message is one line, and most of the time it is all you need. Behind it sit 171+ checkpoints, the full incident record, a status page your customers can read and a monthly uptime report — for the moments you want more than a notification.

The dashboard behind every message

Incidents, response times, per-region results — the full story, one tap deeper than the chat.

Shop — caldmont.comUPTIME · 99.96% Client nightly backupHEARTBEAT · OK caldmont.comSSL · OK

171+ vantage points

Checks run from 70+ countries. On uptime, SSL, speed and transaction monitors you set how many other regions must agree — up to three — before anyone is paged.

171+ checkpoints · 70+ countries

Status pages included

A public status page on your domain — the client-facing answer to “is it down?”

● status.caldmont.com · live

Uptime reports

Monthly PDFs with the numbers — ready to attach to the client’s invoice.

June · 99.96% · PDF sent

Acknowledgement times on record

Every acknowledgement is timestamped, so time-to-respond is a number on the incident, not a feeling.

avg. response · 2 min

If the buzz isn’t enough

On an escalation policy (Professional plan and above), unacknowledged alerts climb: SMS to your phone, then the next contact. Maintenance windows keep planned work silent.

Step 1 — Uptimia Alerts chatTELEGRAM Step 2 — your phoneSMS · +5 MIN Maintenance windowMUTED

How Telegram website-monitoring alerts work

Uptimia checks your sites from 171+ external locations and sends every confirmed failure to the Telegram chat you name — your own, a group or a channel. The message says which monitor failed, what went wrong and how urgent it is, and it reaches every device you are signed in on; when the site recovers, the all-clear lands in the same chat with the total time down.

“I’d notice it myself”

Looking yourself leaves blind spots

Site down
16:42 · silent
glance: hours away
Still unnoticed
customers arriving meanwhile

Opening the site “now and then” checks a few seconds out of the 86,400 the site has to survive every day. Every other second is a blind spot.

Outside probes + your Telegram

Probes watch, Telegram delivers

171+ locations
checking constantly
one push
Your Telegram
wherever you are

Machines do the staring so you don’t have to. You only hear about the moments that matter — and you hear about them in a chat, not a report.

Every event

Exactly what arrives in the chat

Six kinds of message, all plain text — the chat ends up reading like a small ops log.

See all 12 alert channels →
MessageArrives whenContents
Down alertThe failure clears confirmation“UPTIMIA ALERT (CRITICAL): Shop is DOWN since 2026-07-28, 16:42”
Trouble warningA certificate or domain nears expiry, a server crosses a thresholdThe metric and the threshold it crossed, at TROUBLE level
Grouped digestMonitors on one escalation policy fail together“3 monitors are DOWN” plus a bullet per monitor with its error
Escalation stepNobody acknowledges in time“Still down: 2 of 3 monitors” — then the SMS step
RecoveryThe check passes again“is UP after 21 min” — the total time down
Test messageYou connect the chatProof the wiring works, before anything real depends on it

Telegram alerts FAQ

01Do I need to create my own Telegram bot?+
No. @uptimia_bot is Uptimia’s own bot, already built and maintained — you never open BotFather, there’s no token to store and no server to run. You add the bot to a chat and paste the chat’s ID into Uptimia.
02Where can alerts go — groups or channels?+
Both. A group works well when other people — a client, a co-founder — should see the same feed; a channel works as a post-only log. For a purely personal feed, make a private group or channel with just you in it and add the bot there.
03How do I find my channel ID?+
A public channel is its @handle — the part after t.me/ in the channel’s link. A private channel or group has a numeric ID (it looks like -1001234…); any ID bot will read it out to you. Either value goes into the one field in Uptimia.
04What does an alert actually look like?+
One plain-text line: UPTIMIA ALERT (CRITICAL): Shop — caldmont.com is DOWN since 2026-07-28, 16:42, followed — when the monitor runs an escalation policy — by the incident number and the policy it belongs to. When several monitors fail together the message adds a bullet per monitor with its error. Recovery is a matching line carrying the total time down. No cards and no buttons — Telegram bots send text, and text is what a lock screen shows.
05Can I run the whole thing from my phone?+
Yes. An alert on an escalation policy (Professional plan and above) ends with a signed acknowledge link — one tap inside Telegram, no login — and that pauses the ladder without closing the incident. Everything past that, including the per-checkpoint detail, works in a phone browser.
06What if I miss the notification?+
On an escalation policy — Professional plan and above — if nobody acknowledges, Uptimia sends an SMS after a delay you choose, then tries the next contact. Any acknowledgement stops the climb. Telegram is the fast path, not the only one.
07Can my client be in the loop too?+
Add @uptimia_bot to the group you already share with the client and route just their site’s monitors there. When something breaks, they watch you find out first and fix it — which is a better message than any status meeting.
08Will my chat get noisy?+
Quiet by design: uptime, SSL, speed and transaction failures are re-tested from other checkpoints before an incident opens, monitors failing together on one escalation policy merge into a single digest instead of a message storm, maintenance windows silence planned work, and warnings can go to a muted channel while outages keep the loud chat.
09Can Uptimia read my group’s messages?+
The integration is send-only: Uptimia pushes alert messages into the chat and doesn’t read, process or store your conversations. You control the bot’s permissions in Telegram, and removing it from the chat undoes the whole wiring.
10Is Telegram support an add-on?+
No — Telegram is one of 12 built-in alert channels, on every plan including the 30-day free trial. No credit card required.

Point downtime at your Telegram

Add the bot to a chat, point your monitors at it, and every confirmed failure arrives in the app you were going to open anyway.

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No bot to build, no token Works in groups & channels 30-day free trial No credit card
Telegram is a built-in alert channel — every kind of check Uptimia runs can post to it.