Server Monitoring Telegram Bot

A self-hosted .NET based service application to inform the user via Telegram API about status changes of process or running services on a home server.

Features

These features are available via Telegram messages:

• List all commands available (Help)
• Start monitoring (Start)
• Adding a new service to the list via Telegram (Add [New service])
• Remove service from the list via Telegram (Remove [Old service])
• List all tracked processes and statuses (List)
• Set checking interval in seconds (Set timer [seconds])
• Stop monitoring (Stop)

Deploying

Installation

• Clone this git repository.

git clone https://github.com/rolandcsosz/Server-Tracker-Telegram-Bot.git

• Change Directory

cd Server-Tracker-Telegram-Bot

Configuration

Add values to Environment Variables by adding a EnvironmentVariables class to the project like this:

class EnvironmentVariables
{
        public static String TELEGRAM_TOKEN = "";

        public static String CHAT_ID = "";

        public static String LOG_FILE = "log.txt";

        public static String SERVICE_LIST_FILE = "services.json";
}

Configuration Values

• TELEGRAM_TOKEN - Get it by contacting to BotFather
• CHAT_ID - Get it by contacting to RawDataBot
• LOG_FILE - This will be the path for the logging file.
• SERVICE_LIST_FILE - This will be the path for the file where process names will be stored.

Deploy

• Build the project.

dotnet build

• Run the solution.

dotnet run

Credits

• Khalid for creating ConsoleTables

Copyright & License

• Copyright (©) 2022 by Csősz Roland

• Licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991