Updated 1 October 2026 · BugsRadar team

Alerts come from your own bot into a private chat, a group or a Telegram channel. You provide the bot token and the chat ID.

Steps

Open @BotFather in Telegram, send /newbot and choose a name and a username. BotFather replies with the bot token, such as 123456789:AA…. Keep it secret: whoever has it controls the bot.
Add the bot to the group that should receive errors. For alerts to yourself, open a chat with the bot and press Start. For a Telegram channel, add the bot as an administrator that can post messages.
Find the chat ID: send /start in that chat (in a group: /start@your_bot_name), then open https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates in the browser and copy the number after "chat":{"id":. Group and channel IDs are negative, such as -1001234567890.
In BugsRadar, add a Telegram channel and paste the token and the chat ID.

Test it

BugsRadar checks the token and the chat with Telegram before saving the channel. Press Send test: a test message arrives in the chat within seconds. The first real error arrives in full, and its repeats are counted in that same message: see What you receive.

Changing the bot or the chat

Credentials can't be edited: to use another bot or another chat, add a new Telegram channel and delete the old one. If the token is revoked or the bot is removed from the chat, BugsRadar turns the channel off and shows the reason: see When a channel fails.

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