Alerting: Update warning message for Telegram parse_mode and default to empty value (#89630)

public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/receivers/form/ChannelSubForm.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { Controller, FieldErrors, FieldValues, useFormContext } from 'react-hook-form';
 
 import { GrafanaTheme2, SelectableValue } from '@grafana/data';
-import { Alert, Button, Field, Select, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { Alert, Button, Field, Select, Text, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { Trans, t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
 
 import { useUnifiedAlertingSelector } from '../../../hooks/useUnifiedAlertingSelector';
 import { ChannelValues, CommonSettingsComponentType } from '../../../types/receiver-form';
@@ -125,7 +126,10 @@ export function ChannelSubForm<R extends ChannelValues>({
 
   const notifier = notifiers.find(({ dto: { type } }) => type === selectedType);
   const isTelegram = selectedType === 'telegram';
-  const isParseModeNone = parse_mode === 'None';
+  // Grafana AM takes "None" value and maps to an empty string,
+  // Cloud AM takes no value at all
+  const isParseModeNone = parse_mode === 'None' || !parse_mode;
+  const showTelegramWarning = isTelegram && !isParseModeNone;
   // if there are mandatory options defined, optional options will be hidden by a collapse
   // if there aren't mandatory options, all options will be shown without collapse
   const mandatoryOptions = notifier?.dto.options.filter((o) => o.required);
@@ -191,13 +195,20 @@ export function ChannelSubForm<R extends ChannelValues>({
       </div>
       {notifier && (
         <div className={styles.innerContent}>
-          {isTelegram && !isParseModeNone && (
+          {showTelegramWarning && (
             <Alert
-              title="Telegram messages are limited to 4096 UTF-8 characters.
-              If you use a `parse_mode` other than 'None', truncation may result in an invalid message, causing the notification to fail.
-              For longer messages, we recommend using an alternative contact method."
+              title={t(
+                'alerting.contact-points.telegram.parse-mode-warning-title',
+                'Telegram messages are limited to 4096 UTF-8 characters.'
+              )}
               severity="warning"
-            ></Alert>
+            >
+              <Trans i18nKey="alerting.contact-points.telegram.parse-mode-warning-body">
+                If you use a <Text variant="code">parse_mode</Text> option other than <Text variant="code">None</Text>,
+                truncation may result in an invalid message, causing the notification to fail. For longer messages, we
+                recommend using an alternative contact method.
+              </Trans>
+            </Alert>
           )}
           <ChannelOptions<R>
             defaultValues={defaultValues}

public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/cloud-alertmanager-notifier-types.ts

@@ -420,12 +420,16 @@ export const cloudNotifierTypes: Array<NotifierDTO<CloudNotifierType>> = [
       }),
       option('parse_mode', 'Parse mode', 'Parse mode for telegram message', {
         element: 'select',
-        defaultValue: { label: 'MarkdownV2', value: 'MarkdownV2' },
+        // If we've set '' on the API, then the Select won't populate with the correct value,
+        // so the easiest way to fix this is to set the default value to ''
+        defaultValue: { label: 'None', value: '' },
         selectOptions: [
+          // Note that the value for Cloud AM is '',
+          // and for Grafana AM it is 'None'
+          { label: 'None', value: '' },
           { label: 'MarkdownV2', value: 'MarkdownV2' },
           { label: 'Markdown', value: 'Markdown' },
           { label: 'HTML', value: 'HTML' },
-          { label: 'plain text', value: '' },
         ],
       }),
       httpConfigOption,

public/locales/en-US/grafana.json

@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@
     },
     "pause": "Pause evaluation"
   },
+  "alerting": {
+    "contact-points": {
+      "telegram": {
+        "parse-mode-warning-body": "If you use a <1>parse_mode</1> option other than <3>None</3>, truncation may result in an invalid message, causing the notification to fail. For longer messages, we recommend using an alternative contact method.",
+        "parse-mode-warning-title": "Telegram messages are limited to 4096 UTF-8 characters."
+      }
+    }
+  },
   "annotations": {
     "empty-state": {
       "button-title": "Add annotation query",

public/locales/pseudo-LOCALE/grafana.json

@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@
     },
     "pause": "Päūşę ęväľūäŧįőʼn"
   },
+  "alerting": {
+    "contact-points": {
+      "telegram": {
+        "parse-mode-warning-body": "Ĩƒ yőū ūşę ä <1>päřşę_mőđę</1> őpŧįőʼn őŧĥęř ŧĥäʼn <3>Ńőʼnę</3>, ŧřūʼnčäŧįőʼn mäy řęşūľŧ įʼn äʼn įʼnväľįđ męşşäģę, čäūşįʼnģ ŧĥę ʼnőŧįƒįčäŧįőʼn ŧő ƒäįľ. Főř ľőʼnģęř męşşäģęş, ŵę řęčőmmęʼnđ ūşįʼnģ äʼn äľŧęřʼnäŧįvę čőʼnŧäčŧ męŧĥőđ.",
+        "parse-mode-warning-title": "Ŧęľęģřäm męşşäģęş äřę ľįmįŧęđ ŧő 4096 ŮŦF-8 čĥäřäčŧęřş."
+      }
+    }
+  },
   "annotations": {
     "empty-state": {
       "button-title": "Åđđ äʼnʼnőŧäŧįőʼn qūęřy",