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Telegram Bot Setup

Setting up your Telegram Bot | Node Health Monitoring​

This guide provides instructions for setting up your Powerloom Telegram Bot to monitor the health of your node. The Snapshotter-lite nodes currently require manual monitoring to detect any issues.

Introducing the Powerloom Telegram Bot, ‘PowerloomReportingBot’. This bot service maintains an internal health state and reports any issues to operators, such as failed or missed snapshots.

Follow the steps below to set up your Node Health Monitoring process using Telegram.​

  • Step 1: Find the telegram bot by searching ‘PowerloomReportingBot’ on Telegram
  • Step 2: Type ‘/start’ to activate the bot. This will provide you with a Chat ID.

chatID-start

If you are setting up the node for the first time,​

Enter the ChatID when prompted on the terminal during the node setup.

If you have an existing installation,​

Here's what you can do:

A.

  • Update your .env file with the generated ChatID & the Telegram Reporting URL, as seen in the image below.
  • Run the build setup again

updated-env-screenshot

OR

B.

  • Delete your existing .env file & Run the build setup again.
  • Enter the ChatID when prompted on the terminal.

terminal-prompt

To check if the Bot is successfully running, try these:​

  • Limit API request rates per second
  • Limit the API being requested by specifying the allowed API methods. (e.g. eth_getBlockNumber)

If you see messages of failed or missed snapshots like the images below, know that the bot is running successfully.

failed-snapshot

Reach out to the team on Discord. Our goal is to ensure your node runs smoothly, and we're here to help with any challenges you might face.