Setup Webhook Subscription via UI

Webhooks screen allows you to create real-time event notifications, i.e. subscriptions, and browse the list of existing ones .

List of Webhook Subscriptions

The grid comprises a list of all webhook subscriptions configured in Fynapse. It consists of the following columns:

• URL Endpoint - name of the subscription and URL of the endpoint called by the webhook
• Event - the event type triggering the delivery
• Status - information whether the subscription is active or inactive
  • Active - when an event occurs it is sent to the receiving system
  • Inactive - calls which occur when a subscription is inactive do not cumulate, i.e. there is no backlog that is sent once a subscription becomes active again
• Timestamp - date and time when the webhook subscription was created
• Actions
  • Pause/Resume - allows you to pause an active subscription or resume an inactive one
  • Send test - will send a test delivery for your subscription
  • Delete - allows you to delete a subscription

Details Section

You can drill-down to the details section by clicking on a subscription in the grid.

The details section comprises of:

• Overview tab
• Event Deliveries tab

as well as

• Pause deliveries/Resume deliveries button - allows you to pause an active subscription or resume an inactive one
• Send test button - will send a test delivery for your subscription

Overview Tab

Overview tab comprises of a dashboard with metrics about:

Event deliveries

• Total number of event deliveries - blue line
• Number of failed event deliveries - red line

Response time

• Maximum response time - purple line
• Average response time - blue line
• Minimum response time - green line

which can be filtered in the range from Last 5 min to Last 7 days, or you can setup a custom date range. This is shared between both tabs.

The Overview tab also has a right-hand section which contains:

• Details
  • Name - name of the subscription
  • URL Endpoint - URL of the called endpoint
  • Description - description of the subscription
• Secret - secret assigned to the subscription
  • Rotate secret - allows you to rotate a secret, i.e. create a new secret; please remember that this will require you to update the configuration
• Resources - link do relevant help article

Event deliveries Tab

Comprises of a grid with a list of event deliveries:

• Status - status of the delivery
  • PENDING - the delivery has been created and is awaiting its first attempt or is scheduled for a retry
  • DELIVERED - the webhook was accepted by the external system (HTTP 2xx). Terminal status.
  • DEAD-LETTER - the delivery failed permanently — a non-retryable HTTP status was returned or all retries were exhausted. Terminal status.
  • CANCELLED - the subscription was deleted or inactive when the delivery was picked up, so no HTTP attempt is made. Terminal status.
• Event - the event type triggering the delivery
• Timestamp - date and time when the message for the subscription was created

You can drill-down to details of an event delivery by clicking on a delivery in the grid. A panel will open on the right-hand side of the screen with the following information:

Delivery attempt details

• Status - information whether the subscription is active or inactive

  • PENDING - the delivery has been created and is awaiting its first attempt or is scheduled for a retry
  • DELIVERED - the webhook was accepted by the external system (HTTP 2xx). Terminal status.
  • DEAD-LETTER - the delivery failed permanently — a non-retryable HTTP status was returned or all retries were exhausted. Terminal status.
  • CANCELLED - the subscription was deleted or inactive when the delivery was picked up, so no HTTP attempt is made. Terminal status.

• Attempt date - date of the last delivery attempt

• ID - unique ID of the delivery

• Origin Date - date and time when the message for the subscription was created

• Request - request body

• Response - response code, if failed the 4xx body response will be displayed

Resend option - a delivery is re-sent even if it already was sent, it will not appear separately in the Deliveries grid.

Attempt History When more than one delivery attempt is made Attempt history will appear below the response listing all delivery attempts.Multiple delivery attempts can occur e.g. when the first attempt failed and the system attempted retires as per the retry policy, or when you click the Resend button. The delivery status in the Deliveries grid will be the status of the last delivery attempt.

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