watcherr 0.1.1

Lightweight error alerting via Telegram

watcherr

Lightweight error alerting via Telegram for Python apps.

Install

pip install watcherr

Optional integrations:

pip install watcherr[fastapi]
pip install watcherr[django]
pip install watcherr[celery]
pip install watcherr[all]

Setup

1. Get chat ID

WATCHERR_BOT_TOKEN=<your-token> watcherr

Send /start to the bot — it will reply with your chat_id.

2. Configure

Via code:

import watcherr

watcherr.configure(
    bot_token="123456:ABC-DEF",
    chat_id="-1001234567890",
    service_name="my-api",
)

Or via .env:

WATCHERR_BOT_TOKEN=123456:ABC-DEF
WATCHERR_CHAT_ID=-1001234567890
WATCHERR_SERVICE_NAME=my-api
WATCHERR_ENVIRONMENT=production

Usage

import watcherr

watcherr.send_alert("Database connection failed", exc=exception)
watcherr.send_warning("Slow query", table="users", duration="5s")
watcherr.send_info("Deployed", version="1.2.0")

Logging handler

import logging
from watcherr.logging_handler import WatcherrHandler

logging.getLogger("myapp").addHandler(WatcherrHandler())

FastAPI middleware

from watcherr.integrations.fastapi_middleware import WatcherrMiddleware

app.add_middleware(WatcherrMiddleware)

Django middleware

# settings.py
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "watcherr.integrations.django_middleware.WatcherrMiddleware",
    # ... other middleware
]

Celery signals

from watcherr.integrations.celery_signals import setup_celery_alerts

setup_celery_alerts()

Config options

Env variable	Default	Description
WATCHERR_BOT_TOKEN	—	Telegram bot token
WATCHERR_CHAT_ID	—	Telegram chat/group ID
WATCHERR_SERVICE_NAME	app	Service name in alert title
WATCHERR_ENVIRONMENT	production	Environment label
WATCHERR_RATE_LIMIT	60	Dedup window in seconds
WATCHERR_ENABLED	true	Enable/disable sending