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Telegram Alternatives

Weighing your options? Checkout these 8 alternatives that could help you accomplish your goal.

What this page covers

This page compares Telegram with other ways to get notified about what happens in your pipelines, sandboxes and AI agent runs on Buddy. If you are looking for a messaging app to replace Telegram for personal chats, the list below still applies: every service here has a free tier, works on Android, iOS and desktop, and exposes a bot or webhook API that Buddy can post to.

Telegram alternatives for pipeline and agent notifications

  • Discord - channels, threads and voice in one app, free for any team size. Buddy posts through a webhook, so no bot setup is needed.
  • Slack - the standard for work chat. The action supports channels, attachments and Block Kit messages.
  • Microsoft Teams - for teams already on Microsoft 365. Messages can be sent as HTML with file attachments.
  • Pushover - push notifications to a phone or desktop, with priority levels and links back to the run. No chat, just alerts.
  • Pushbullet - similar to Pushover, with device targeting and link previews.
  • SMS - a text message to a list of phone numbers, useful for on-call alerts when data or Wi-Fi is off.
  • Email - a plain or HTML email with attachments, sent to addresses or to Buddy workspace groups.
  • HTTP Request - a POST to any webhook. This is how you reach Signal, Matrix, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat or a custom bot that Buddy has no dedicated action for.

Example: switch a failure alert from Telegram to Slack

Both actions share the same fields for the message body and the trigger condition, so moving from one to the other is a change of type and the integration or channel. The snippet below sends a message to Slack only when the previous actions fail.

yaml
- action: "Notify on failure"
  type: "SLACK"
  trigger_time: "ON_FAILURE"
  integration: "my_slack"
  channel: "#deployments"
  content: "Pipeline $BUDDY_PIPELINE_NAME failed on $BUDDY_RUN_BRANCH: $BUDDY_RUN_URL"

The Telegram version of the same action uses type: "TELEGRAM", the Telegram integration and an optional parse_mode set to MARKDOWN or HTML. You can keep both actions in one pipeline and let each team pick the channel it reads.

When Telegram is still the right choice

Telegram bots are free, do not require a workspace or a paid seat, and group chats can hold up to 200,000 members. For a small team or an open source project with a public community channel, the Telegram action is often the simplest way to broadcast releases and build results.

  • Discord

    Discord is a free VoIP app that combines easy to configure chat UI with video and voice chat. Released in 2015, Discord quickly became the most popular VoIP app reporting over 250 million overall users (and over 14 million concurrent), Discord is great for coordinating teams and communities.

  • Email

    Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to build, test and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.

  • Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams is a go-to messaging solutions for many companies. Gained exceptional popularity in 2020 due to its seemless integration with other Microsoft's products

  • Pushbullet

    Pushbullet is an app available for iOS, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Android that connects your mobile device with your computer. This way, whenever you get text messages you can receive on any of the connected devices. This works for SMS as well as the phone notifications.

  • Pushover

    Pushover is an easy-to-implement push notification platform that can be integrated effortlessly into a wide range of web applications. You send out server/app/website monitoring related notifications to any iOS, Android or desktop device. Additionally Pushover provides developers with a powerful API that uses HTTP libraries available for most programming languages.

  • Slack

    Slack is a chat platform designed for companies or teams. Thanks to its "workspaces" feature you can easily organize your day-to-day communication by creating various channels. Due to its powerful API, Slack allows for integration with a wide range of apps - including Buddy

  • SMS

    SMS is a text messaging service developed in 1984 by team of GSM developers Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. Originally designed as part of GSM network is now available for networks liek 3-4G, H+ and more. Despite the growing market for internet-based messaging apps, SMS market is still a growing one reaching estimated worth of over $100 billion in 2014.

  • HTTP Request

    Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP for short is a protocol used for transfering data over the internet. It is a crucial part of the internet protocol suite which defines various commands and services used for transfering website data over the web.