How to use proxy for Telegram notifications channel

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Sending Alert notifications via Teleram fail when Grafana instance runs on a server without direct internet access.
And there is no obvious way to define http/https proxy for Telegram in channel configuration form or ini file.

Setting proxy globally for grafana in env doesn’t look as a good solution - as far as I understand it would also cause all http-based datasource communication go through proxy too.

Is there any way around this problem?

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Hi,

At the moment you cannot configure this for telegram. You have to go with configure proxy globally for grafana in env variables. See this and this issue for details.

Marcus

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Hi!
The situation has not changed in a year? Very topical topic - to drive all traffic through the proxy is not very convenient, you need only the alerts from the telegrams of the bot.

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I’ve used these commands to start grafana so that it connects to local servers and also it sends telegram messages.

SET http_proxy=http://X.X.X.X:8000
SET http_proxy=http://X.X.X.X:8000
SET no_proxy="127.0.0.1,localhost"
D:\GRAFANA\bin\grafana-server.exe
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hi turkertunali …
can u please explain with the commands on how to do that…my grafana is on dockers

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That company gave us a proxy server. We just set it when grafana is starting.You need to set some environmental variables for Grafana, like.

SET http_proxy=http://PROXY_SERVER:8000
SET https_proxy=http://PROXY_SERVER:8000
SET no_proxy=“127.0.0.1,localhost”
D:\GRAFANA\bin\grafana-server.exe

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Now It’s 2022, also not support use proxy for telegram notification!