On-Premise Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Telegram Bot

Abstract

On-premise Servers can be classified as a crucial backbone of a company. Sensitive data like Financial Records, User Information are stored on on-premise servers. This makes it necessary to be kept in a separate room with supervision and security checks, making it difficult to monitor the server periodically. This paper researches on-premise servers which lack remote monitoring and introduces a user-friendly solution. By making monitoring data available remotely via a Telegram bot, monitoring the servers becomes easy on-site or off-site and only requires the administrators to physically inspect the server for initial configuration, periodic checks, and any physical repairs. Monitoring software like Prometheus can be used to collect server metrics at set intervals. Telegram provides an API to create and control bots that can send messages to its user. By storing the metrics collected by Prometheus in a cloud database, the Telegram Bot can be requested to fetch these data which can be viewed by the server administrator remotely. Key Words: Server Monitoring, Telegram Bot, Python Service, Prometheus.