Notification Types
Security Alerts
Instant notifications about spam attacks, suspicious users, and potential threats.
Member Milestones
Celebrate when your group reaches member milestones - 100, 1K, 10K members and more.
Activity Changes
Get notified about unusual activity patterns - sudden spikes or drops in engagement.
Admin Actions
Track all moderation actions - bans, warns, mutes - with full audit trail.
Delivery Options
Why Notifications Matter
- Early Warning - Catch spam attacks and security threats before they escalate.
- Stay Informed - Know what's happening in your community without constant monitoring.
- Celebrate Wins - Never miss community milestones and achievements.
How alerts are raised and delivered
Notifications turn events already happening inside Telm into alerts pushed to you, so you learn about something without watching the group. The triggering events fall into a few kinds: security alerts when spam attacks or suspicious accounts are detected, member milestones as the group grows, activity changes when engagement spikes or drops unusually, and admin actions logging every ban, warn and mute for the audit trail. Each alert goes out over the channel that suits it — Telegram DM, admin channel, email digest, webhook or API, dashboard, or mobile push — and smart grouping bundles a burst of related events so an attack does not become a wall of pings.
The practical gain is early warning: catching a spam wave or an unusual pattern while it is starting lets you step in before it escalates, and you stay informed without constant manual monitoring. Routing matters — noisy, low-stakes events can go to an email digest while a security alert hits your DM immediately — so the important signals are not buried. The honest caveat is that a notification tells you something changed, not always what to do: a sudden spike could be a viral moment or an incoming raid, so the alert is the prompt to look, and the moderation log and analytics are where you confirm what actually happened.
Frequently asked questions
Will I get flooded with alerts during a spam attack?
No — smart grouping bundles a burst of related events into a single alert instead of one ping per message, so an attack reads as one notification you can act on rather than a wall of them. You also choose which event types notify you at all and route the noisy, low-stakes ones to an email digest while keeping security alerts on an immediate channel like a Telegram DM.
Which events can actually trigger a notification?
Four kinds: security alerts (spam attacks, suspicious users, threats), member milestones as the group grows, activity changes when engagement spikes or drops unusually, and admin actions — every ban, warn and mute, forming an audit trail. You decide which of these are worth interrupting you for and which just accumulate quietly in the dashboard or a digest.
Can alerts go somewhere other than Telegram?
Yes. Delivery channels include Telegram DM, a dedicated admin channel, email digest, webhook or API, dashboard alerts and mobile push. The webhook and API options are what let you route events into your own tooling — a monitoring system or an on-call setup — so notifications are not locked to reading them by hand inside Telegram.
A notification told me activity spiked — does that mean there's a problem?
Not necessarily. An activity-change alert tells you the pattern shifted, not what caused it — a spike can be a viral post or an incoming raid. Treat the notification as a prompt to look rather than a verdict: the moderation log shows whether the detection layers were acting on spam, and analytics shows whether the surge is genuine engagement.
Where teams use this
Real community types where this feature does the heavy lifting.
Keep support channels clean from spam while allowing new users to ask questions. Support mode makes onboarding easy.
Professional moderation for company groups and client communities. Strong protection with detailed audit logs.
Protect your crypto group from scammers, fake airdrops, and phishing links — including scams hidden inside images.
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