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Overview

Telegram Alerts allow you to receive monitoring alerts directly in Telegram — no email, Slack, or webhook infrastructure required. Alerts can be sent two ways:
  • Direct Message — the Messari bot messages you directly.
  • Group — the Messari bot posts into a Telegram group you choose, so a whole team sees each alert.
    There is a limit to the group size that can receive alerts. Only groups smaller than 10 members can receive alerts.
Connecting Telegram is a one-time setup per View. You pick a destination, open a secure link that hands off to Telegram, complete a short confirmation there, and then verify the connection back in the app. This page walks through that flow end to end.
Each Telegram connection is tied to a single Monitoring View. If you want alerts from several Views in the same chat, connect each View to that chat individually.

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Connecting Telegram

You configure Telegram on the alerts step of a Monitoring View — the same place you enable email, Slack, or webhook delivery.
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Turn on the Telegram toggle

On the View’s alerts step, switch the Telegram toggle on. Two destination buttons appear: Group and Direct Message.Telegram toggle enabled showing Group and Direct Message buttons
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Choose Group or Direct Message

Pick where alerts should go. This choice generates a one-time Telegram deep link unique to this View and reveals a Click to Connect Telegram button.Select Connection Type buttons with the Click to Connect Telegram button
The deep link is single-use and expires after a short window. If you don’t finish the connection in time, the status shows an error — just cancel and start over to generate a fresh link.
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Connect Telegram

Select Click to Connect Telegram. A small popup opens Telegram (the desktop/mobile app if you have it installed, otherwise Telegram Web) with the Messari bot ready to either be added to a group or directly to DMs.Telegram deep-link popup opening the Messari bot to message directly or add to a group
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Complete Telegram Setup

Finish the handoff inside Telegram based on the destination you picked:
  • Direct Message — setup is complete.
Telegram Direct Message with the Messari bot setup
  • Group — there’s one more step: select your group under Add to Group, then Add Bot as Admin.
Telegram Add to Group dialog selecting a group to add the Messari bot to
For groups, granting Admin rights is required. If the bot is added but left as a regular member, the connection stays pending until you promote it to Admin.
Telegram dialog granting the Messari bot Admin rights in the groupTelegram group chat with the Messari bot setup
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Verify the connection

Back in the app, click Check Connection.Connection status line showing a waiting state after clicking Check ConnectionThe status line updates to show where things stand — see Connection Status below. Repeat this step after you’ve finished the Telegram side; it may take a moment for the confirmation to register.Connection status line showing the connected state after verifying
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Save the View

Once the status reads Connected, save the Monitoring View. Telegram delivery is now active — matching alerts for this View will be delivered to the chat you connected.

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Connection Status

After you click Check Connection, the status line reflects the current state of the handoff. Use it to tell whether Telegram is fully wired up or still waiting on a step:
StatusWhat it means
Waiting for the bot to be added…Direct Message chosen, but you haven’t started the chat with the bot yet.
Waiting for group Admin rights…Group chosen and the bot was added, but it hasn’t been granted Admin rights.
Waiting for the bot to be added and granted Admin rights…Group chosen, but nothing has been done in Telegram yet.
Connected · Direct MessageSuccess — alerts will be sent to you as a direct message.
Connected · Group – <chat name>Success — alerts will be posted to the named group.
If the status doesn’t update immediately, wait a couple of seconds and click Check Connection again — the confirmation from Telegram can take a moment to propagate.

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Managing an Existing Connection

Cancel before connecting. At any point before the connection completes, you can click Cancel to back out and choose a different destination (for example, switch from Direct Message to a Group). Cancelling discards the pending deep link. Expired link. The deep link is valid for a limited time. If you wait too long, the status shows an error and the link stops working. Cancel and start over to generate a fresh one. Rebinding a connected View. If you open a View that’s already connected to Telegram, you’ll see a read-only Connected row showing the current destination, with a Start over option. Choosing Start over lets you rebind the View to a different chat. The existing connection keeps delivering until the new one succeeds, so you won’t miss alerts during the switch. Connected row with a Start over option to rebind the View to a different chat
Start over replaces the destination for this View only. Other Views connected to the same chat are unaffected.