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Panguard Chat delivers security alerts to the channels your team already uses. This guide covers setting up each of the 5 supported notification channels and configuring user roles to control who receives what.
1

Initialize Chat configuration

Run the interactive setup wizard:
The wizard walks you through channel selection and credential entry. You can also configure channels individually using the flags shown below.
2

Configure your channels

Set up one or more notification channels:
  1. Message @BotFather on Telegram and create a new bot
  2. Copy the bot token
  3. Start a chat with your bot and send any message
  4. Get your chat ID from the Telegram API or use @userinfobot
For group notifications, add the bot to a Telegram group and use the group chat ID (starts with -100).
3

Configure user roles

Panguard supports 3 user roles that control notification verbosity:Set the role for each channel:
You can configure the same channel type multiple times with different roles. For example, send developer-level alerts to #security-engineering and boss-level summaries to #security-executive.
4

Test your configuration

Send a test notification to all configured channels:
Test a specific channel:
5

Verify active channels

List all configured notification channels and their status:

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What to do next

Set up real-time protection

Notifications require Guard to be running. Start continuous monitoring first.

Chat product reference

Full documentation for the Chat notification system.

User roles deep dive

Detailed breakdown of what each role receives and message formatting.

Troubleshoot notifications

Common issues with channel configuration and delivery.