What is active webhook monitoring?
Active webhook monitoring is an approach that measures the end-to-end timing of an event being processed by your system. We call an endpoint on your system (a trigger), and await the corresponding webhook. This accurately reflects the delays that might be experienced by your customers.
If a webhook is not received within a user-configurable amount of time, an alert is created for your team to quickly respond.
This goes beyond simple cron job and workflow monitoring that simply ensures an endpoint is hit every few minutes.
Why Deliver?
Detect delays
Trigger alerts when a webhook exceeds a specified time span
Notify your team
Built-in support for PagerDuty alerting
Identify trends
Up to 500 recent timings per webhook source are retained and displayed graphically
Securely trigger
Pass along headers and query parameters to trigger your webhooks
Verify signatures
Ensure that webhook events are properly signed
Validate schema
Alert when events don’t match a JSON schema
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