# Introducing our new interactive Telegram notifications

When something is wrong with your site, we can already notify you via a lot of different channels: mail, Slack, SMS, Webhooks, ...

Today, we're adding support for Telegram notifications. We've polished the entire connection flow and made the notifications themselves interactive.

To get started, click the **Telegram** notification channel at either the team or site level.



First, you need to invite `@OhDearAppBot` to your Telegram channel.

Next, you must copy the start command we generated and paste it into the Telegram channel.

<img src="/img/docs/notifications/telegram/start-token.png" alt="Telegram channel where the Oh Dear start command with token is pasted and the bot confirms the connection" class="max-w-md" />

At Oh Dear, the start command will be acknowledged too.



Finally, you must choose for which events you want to receive notifications and save the Telegram settings.

![screenshot](/img/docs/notifications/telegram/saved.png)

Whenever something is wrong with your site, we'll send you a notification. Let's take a look at what happens when the site is down.

<img src="/img/docs/notifications/telegram/down.png" alt="Telegram down alert for freek.dev with a 503 error and Full report, Check again and Snooze buttons" class="max-w-md" />

Notice that there are buttons underneath the notification to view the full report, snooze further notifications, and to rerun the check. Pretty handy.

When you press "Snooze", you'll see the various snoozing options.

<img src="/img/docs/notifications/telegram/snooze.png" alt="Telegram snooze options for the freek.dev uptime check ranging from 5 minutes to a week" class="max-w-md" />

Let's give this post a happy ending by showing what the notification looks like when a site comes back online.

<img src="/img/docs/notifications/telegram/up.png" alt="Telegram recovery notification that freek.dev is back up after 3 minutes, following the earlier down alert" class="max-w-md" />

Combine them with [in- and outside-business-hour notifications](/news-and-updates/in-outside-business-hour-notifications) to stay sane.

We hope you like this new notification channel.