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title: "Telegram website monitoring alerts — Lemwatch"
description: "How to get Telegram alerts when a website goes down, using Lemwatch and your own bot: token and chat ID setup, alert contents, and plan requirements."
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/integrations/telegram"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
---

# Telegram alerts for website monitoring

> Lemwatch can message you on Telegram the moment a site goes down, using your own bot. You supply a bot token and a chat ID; delivery is unlimited on every plan, including free.

## Can Lemwatch send Telegram alerts when a website goes down?

 Lemwatch can message you on Telegram the moment a site goes down, using your own bot. You supply a bot token and a chat ID; delivery is unlimited on every plan, including free.

## How to set it up

 What you need: A bot token from @BotFather plus the chat ID of the person, group or channel to message.

- Message @BotFather in Telegram and create a bot, then copy the token it gives you.
- Send your new bot a message, or add it to the group you want alerts in.
- Open https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates in a browser and read the chat ID out of the response.
- Paste the token and chat ID into the Telegram fields in Lemwatch and send a test message.

## What the alert contains

 Alerts arrive as a short formatted message on your phone with the site name, what failed and the time — fast enough to act on before most customers notice.

## What Lemwatch watches

 Every alert that reaches Telegram comes from the same checks: uptime and response time, SSL and domain expiry, DNS changes, broken links, visual and content changes, Core Web Vitals and SEO regressions. You choose which of them are worth interrupting the channel for.

## Telegram alerts — common questions

### Why do I need my own bot instead of adding an official one?

 Your own bot means the token is yours, the alerts stay inside your account, and nothing routes through a shared bot that could be rate limited by other people's traffic.

### Can a whole team get the alert?

 Yes. Add the bot to a Telegram group and use the group's chat ID. Everyone in the group gets the alert at the same time.



## Lemwatch at a glance

- What it is: website monitoring that checks uptime, page changes, SEO, security, SSL and speed in one tool.
- Free plan: 10 sites, no time limit, all check types.
- Pro: $19/mo, 50 sites, public API and webhooks.
- Agency: $59/mo, 150 sites, white-label status pages.
- Source: https://lemwatch.com/pricing (facts verified from the product's own plan limits).



## Related

- [All alert integrations](https://lemwatch.com/integrations)
- [Telegram setup guide](https://lemwatch.com/help/telegram-integration)
- [Slack alerts](https://lemwatch.com/integrations/slack)
- [Discord alerts](https://lemwatch.com/integrations/discord)
- [Microsoft Teams alerts](https://lemwatch.com/integrations/microsoft-teams)
- [Monitoring REST API](https://lemwatch.com/api-docs)
- [Lemwatch pricing](https://lemwatch.com/pricing)
- [All monitoring checks](https://lemwatch.com/features)