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Log4Telegram

Log4net appender that allows you to send log messages using Telegram

What does it do?

Quite simple: it takes your logging events, and forwards them to the Telegram Bot API.

How do I use it?

First of all, you need to create a Telegram Bot account. You can follow this guide to do it.
Install the NuGet package (or compile from source if you'd like).
Configure the appender. It behaves like a regular appender in the way that you can use a layout for it. Aside from that, it requires two additional parameters: token - The token that identifies your Telegram Bot recipient - The ID of the recipient, this can be a regular account or a group
Just use Log4net like you normally would. You can check out the Example project in the source code if you need to.

Will you continue development on this?

Probably not. I made this because I needed it myself and I wanted to share it with you. It's not exactly rocket science so you are free to fork it, or send pull requests, or whatever. Maybe if there's a big enough demand, I might work on it more.

Important notes

Telegram Bots can not send messages 'out of the blue' so to speak. You, as the recipient, need to initiate a conversation with your bot before it can send messages to your. You can also add the bot to a group conversation, and this will also enable it to send messages to the group.
Telegram's API allows the use of Markdown in their messages. You can use Markdown in your Log4net layout in order to use this in your log messages.

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