The new framework for Telegram that we are developing has already produced its first usable offspring.

I used the Framework to create the HostWatchBot chatbot on Telegram, which allows me to monitor my servers, in other words, it already addresses my "pain", which I believe is the same as many others, which is why I am sharing it here.

All of this is in open source code on Github, within the Framework repository, and I decided to share it for those who want to learn more about the advantages of using the Telegram platform as a true "app store", without spending anything and without much effort to adapt to those things that only Google
and Apple require from developers. In other words, your "app" will be within Telegram in the form of a "bot", quickly and free of charge, with no annual fees and with the ease of using any language and even creating web "mini-apps".

All of this on mobile, web and desktop platforms, since Telegram runs on all of them!

Here is a description of how I created the HostWatchBot example chatbot using the open source framework: Telegram Bot Framework

You will need to know Python to analyze the host_monitor_by_user.py script, which is a bot written by reusing the TlgBotFwk class. This is the first practical example of how to use this framework quickly and easily, using its base class to inherit all the standard commands that we would have to implement if we started from scratch. This frees the bot developer to focus only on the features that really add value, as in this case, where the goal was to create a Telegram bot that would act as a Watchdog, monitoring servers that might go down.

See the source code, which is much simpler, because all that was needed was to implement the scheduling and host on and off check using "ping".

With this, the end user can add, delete or check the progress of automatic checks with just a few commands in the chatbot:

To add a host to be monitored (where 60 is the time in seconds between ping checks):

/pingadd host.com.br 60

To toggle whether on/off ping results loggin displayed at chat:

/pinglog

To delete a host from the watchlist, use the command in the chatbot:

/pingdelete host.com.br

To list all your monitored hosts, use just the command:

/pinglist

When one of the monitored hosts stops responding to pings, the chatbot immediately sends a warning.

With this, I was able to get this chatbot up and running in record time and I am already benefiting from it to "monitor" my servers; obviously, these servers have to accept responding to pings.

If you want to see the bot live and in color already running on Telegram, click on the link below:

https://t.me/HostWatchBot

Or go to Github to see the source code, which is in the framework's examples folder:

https://github.com/gersonfreire/telegram-bot-framework/blob/main/examples/host_monitor_by_user.py

Thanks for reading, make good use of it and if you want, join us in this endeavor open to the community!