Telegram Bot - Server and website monitoring

Monitoring scripts to check websites and services, look for file changes, check backups and detect IP address changes.

Sends Telegram messages with a bot and the telegram API.

Get started

• Create a bot with Botfather with the command /newbot
• Copy the API key and place it in .token in the main telegrambot directory
• Send a message to the chat or put the Chat ID in the .chatid file in the main telegrambot directory

Send messages

$ python sendmessage.py 'Hello world!'

Monitor Website

Check if specifc word is found on website.

$ python check_website.py '<url>' '<expected_word>'

Or to check website, but only send a message after a 2 number of failures. You can change the number of failures before messaging in the python code.

$ python check_website_failures.py '<url>' '<expected_word>'

Monitor File Changes

Check for recent changes files in directory. For instance to verify if backups are working.

$ python check_latestfile.py '<directory>' <alarm_after_x_minutes>

Monitor Server

Check if server is reachable with a ping command.

$ python check_ping.py '<hostname or ip>'

Check current server WAN ip address. Used for home connections where ip addresses tend to change.

$ python check_ip.py

Monitor Services

Check if a specific service is running on a server. Works for Ubuntu and probably other unix operating systems.

$ python check_service.py '<service_name>'

Or to check for a service and only send a message after the second failure, to avoid false warnings.

$ python check_service_failures.py '<service_name>'

Monitor Bitcoin Node

Check if a Bitcoin core node is running and returns the number of blocks synced. Uses the Bitcoinlib library.

$ python check_bitcoind.py '<bitcoind_url>' '[<block_count>]'