What is pm2-telegram-notification ?

Send server logs to a telegram group/chat. works with pm2 process manager.

Installation

pm2 install pm2-telegram-notification

How to Use

Telegram setup

• create a telegram bot link
• add that bot to a group if you want to send logs to a group
• get chat_id
  • to get chat_id use https://api.telegram.org/bot<BOT_TOKEN>/getUpdates api

pm2-telegram-notification setup

• install pm2-telegram-notification -- pm2 install pm2-telegram-notification
• configure bot token -- pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:bot_token BOT_TOKEN
• configure chat id -- pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:chat_id CHAT_ID

  • if its a group chat id append g-

    eg:

    group chat CHAT_ID = 123456 -> g-123456

    personal chat CHAT_ID = 123456 -> 123456

• configure server name (optional) --pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:server_name SERVER_NAME
• configure lifecycle (optional) default: true --pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:lifecycle (true/false)
• configure error (optional) default: true --pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:error (true/false)
• configure error_log (optional) default: true --pm2 set pm2-telegram-notification:error_log (true/false)

Configuration definition 😎

• server_name = name of the server
• bot_token = token generated with telegram as suggested in 'Telegram setup section'
• chat_id = identifier corresponding to particular group or personal chat on which the notifications are expected to be posted, as explained in 'Telegram setup section'
• lifecycle = enabled alerts for lifecycle event handlers exposed by pm2, default is true
• error = enabled alerts for error handlers exposed by pm2, default is true
• error_log = flag configuration to truncate log with ref-id above 3500 characters with a trace in logs annotated with that ref-id, default is true
• violation_time = time interval gap in which if another alerts occurs is said to count as violation, default is 10000
• violation_count = violation count limit after which the notification is delayed with debounce time, default is 8
• debounce = delay/debounce time applied in milliseconds to notification in case if violation count limit is reached, default is 30000