NLog.Targets.Telegram

An NLog target for Telegram

Usage

1. Create a Telegram Bot.

2. Install NLog.Targets.Telegram package from NuGet

3. Configure NLog to use NLog.Targets.Telegram:

NLog.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" autoReload="true">

    <extensions>
        <add assembly="NLog.Targets.Telegram" />
    </extensions>

    <targets>
        <target xsi:type="Telegram" name="myTelegramChannel" 
                layout="*${level:uppercase=true}* @ ${logger}${newline}${message}${newline}```${exception:format=toString,Data:maxInnerExceptionLevel=10}```"
                botToken="xxxxx:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
                chatId="xxxxxxx"
                parseMode="MARKDOWN" />
    </targets>

    <rules>
        <logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="myTelegramChannel" />
    </rules>

</nlog>

Configuration Options

Key	Description
botToken	Your Telegram bot token
chatId	Unique identifier for the message recipient, user or channel ID
parseMode	Optional. Telegram Message formatting options: DEFAULT, MARKDOWN or HTML

Notes

Setting parseMode = "HTML" tags in layout must be escaped, i.g. layout="<b> ${message} </b>"