How to send monitoring notifications to Telegram or Microsoft Teams
The conventional thing in a monitoring environment is to notify problems to your staff over E-Mail. Other than E-Mails also SMS are a very common notification type. But is this all we can offer to notify people about problems in our IT?
Obviously, there is more than that. Two very handy examples are:
Notifications over the Telegram App (CLI)
Notifications over the Office 365 Web API (Microsoft Teams)
Telegram
As you are most probably aware, the WhatsApp-similar application “Telegram”, allows you to send messages to your contacts, groups and also channels. Other then WhatsApp, Telegram has an installable command line interface (CLI) through which you may script the sending of messages from a computer. You have to download and install the Telegram binaries on your monitoring server. After that, you define the notification command in the monitoring in this way:
Obviously before being able to do this, you have to register your monitoring host as a Telegram sender (the same as you would do it on your smartphone). For this you can use the same phone number you use for sending the SMS’s.
Office 365
Here you have the possibility to register groups. For the notification you need exactly this GUID after that use this commands to send your notifications:
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5 Replies to “How to send monitoring notifications to Telegram or Microsoft Teams”
I do not understand what you exactly need, there is no NRPE.cfg as this is just a Notification Command the command you have to use is described in the blog anyway use this:
Hi Juergen.
Not for the NRPE but for the NCPA.
Set the command as indicated (with webhook URL) and in ncpa.cfg:
…
define service {
use generic-service
host_name SERVERNAME
service_description TEAMS NOT Teste
check_command check_ncpa!-t ‘token-ncpa’ -P 5693 -M ‘disk/logical/C:|’ -w 90 -c 95 -u G
event_handler ms-teams-notifications
…
works well.
Thanks for help.
Ricardo
Hi.
Thanks for sharing.
For Office 365, can share with me the nagios (command.cfg and NRPE.cfg)?
Thanks
Hi Ricardo,
I do not understand what you exactly need, there is no NRPE.cfg as this is just a Notification Command the command you have to use is described in the blog anyway use this:
For Host Notification: curl -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d “{\”title\”: \”** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert – $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **\”, \”text\”: \”***** NetEye *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\”, \”themeColor\”: \”EA4300\”}” https://outlook.office365.com/webhook/YOURGUIDHERE
For Service Notification:
curl -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d “{\”title\”: \” ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert – $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **\”, \”text\”: \”***** NetEye *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\n[HealthPortalURL]($SERVICENOTESURL$)\nHost: $HOSTNAME$ ($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\”, \”themeColor\”: \”EA4300\”}” https://outlook.office365.com/webhook/YOURGUIDHERE
Hope this helps.
Hi.
It’s an Nagios command, right?
I was talking about invoking the command on NRPE config.
Hello Ricardo,
yes this is a Nagios Command, why would you make a Notification over NRPE?
Anyway if you use it over NRPE just pass the same arguments to it, something like:
check_nrpe -H -c notify_o365 -a ”-H “Content-Type: application/json” -d “{\”title\”: \” ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert – $HOSTNAME$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **\”, \”text\”: \”***** NetEye *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\n[HealthPortalURL]($SERVICENOTESURL$)\nHost: $HOSTNAME$ ($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\”, \”themeColor\”: \”EA4300\”}” YOURGUID
And a command in nrpe.cfg like:
[notify_o365] = curl $ARG1$
Cheers,
Jürgen
Hi Juergen.
Not for the NRPE but for the NCPA.
Set the command as indicated (with webhook URL) and in ncpa.cfg:
…
define service {
use generic-service
host_name SERVERNAME
service_description TEAMS NOT Teste
check_command check_ncpa!-t ‘token-ncpa’ -P 5693 -M ‘disk/logical/C:|’ -w 90 -c 95 -u G
event_handler ms-teams-notifications
…
works well.
Thanks for help.
Ricardo