View webhook data in the events store

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The Webhooks v3 eventing operations are designed for testing and troubleshooting; they are not designed as an alternate way to monitor and download webhook events. That's the job of your listener endpoint.

View a summary of events

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This new endpoint will be released soon.

The /webhooks/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/summary endpoint returns a high-level status summary of all events that have been generated for a given webhooks subscription in the last 7 days.

This is a good tool for checking the health of your webhooks subscription, and to determine if you need to run a bulk export of failed events.

Example request:

curl --request GET \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer 
Yh1cEVzUOy0lZNaBxcGbQRQ6qFaRvW0UBqTD81p76ymSNN73P6eulMZFX2-MkN1h' \
  --url
https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/c8c7fcb5-d44c-4226-b728-9d5660192144/summary

Example response:

{
  "updatedAt": "2020-01-01T00:00:00.000000001Z",
  "total": 100,
  "succeeded": 70,
  "retrying": 12,
  "failed": 18,
  "exportable": 5
}

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The /summary endpoint may take a few seconds to respond.

The response is given in application/json, and includes the following fields:

Field	Description
`updatedAt`	Timestamp indicating when the summary was last updated. The summary will update the first time the `/summary` endpoint is called within 24 hours (So it cannot update more than once a day.)
`total`	Total number of events for this subscription at the time of the update. `total` = `succeeded` + `retrying` + `failed`
`succeeded`	Number of events that were successfully delivered to the subscription endpoint.
`retrying`	Number of events that are still in a retrying state.
`failed`	Number of events that failed to be delivered to the subscription endpoint.
`exportable`	Number of events that failed, but have not been bulk exported yet. This is a subset of the `failed` events. Note that a failed event can only be exported once, so any failed events that have already been exported are no longer `exportable`.

Best Practice: Redelivering failed events in bulk

The most common use case for the/summary endpoint is to check for failed events that can be redelivered. For best practice, follow these steps:

Call the /summary endpoint to check the health of your webhooks subscription.
If exportable is more than 0, run a bulk export to retrieve those failed events and ingest them into your system.
Call the /summary endpoint again after 24 hours to confirm the health of your webhooks subscription, and repeat steps 2-3 as necessary.

View event details

The /webhooks/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/events operation returns information about the events that have been generated for a given webhooks subscription. For example:

{  
   "id": "28da8068-61cc-4af3-8d5e-ae49a02dd47b",  
   "createdAt": "2020-01-27T16:53:50.815936Z",  
   "updatedAt": "2020-01-27T16:53:51.554764Z",  
   "state": "success",  
   "attempts": 1,  
    "request": {  
       "endpoint": "https://webhook.site/46ff3c5e-ae95-43df-b32d-d07bb84746b4",  
      "headers": {  
           "Accept": "*/*",  
           "Content-Length": "1293",  
           "Content-Type": "application/secevent+jwt",  
           "Host": "webhook.site",  
           "User-Agent": "Akamai Identity Cloud Webhooks/v3.0.0"  
       },  
       "payload": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjFkYzEyMDczNjk5YzY4YzFkYWVlNmM5YTEwMGUyYjQzZmViZGNkOTIifQ  
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   "response": {  
       "statusCode": 200,  
       "headers": {  
           "Cache-Control": "no-cache, private",  
           "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8",  
           "Date": "Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:53:51 GMT",  
           "Server": "nginx/1.14.2",  
           "Set-Cookie": "laravel\_session=0WvS2SrKRs0In3XSBAdlLykpCCTTnJmzLnCYljfw; expires=Mon, 27-Jan-2020 18:53:51 GMT;    Max-Age=7200; path=/; httponly",  
           "Vary": "Accept-Encoding",  
           "X-Ratelimit-Limit": "100",  
           "X-Ratelimit-Remaining": "97",  
           "X-Request-Id": "11d339a3-17bd-457d-abde-64c5810e5244",  
           "X-Token-Id": "46ff3c5e-ae95-43df-b32d-d07bb84746b4"  
       }  
   },  
   "\_links": {  
       "self": {  
           "href": "/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/e5269842-024f-49bf-8a39-67aec8048b42/events/28da8068-61cc-4af3-8d5e-ae49a02dd47b"  
       },  
       "redeliver": {  
           "href": "/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/e5269842-024f-49bf-8a39-67aec8048b42/events/28da8068-61cc-4af3-8d5e-ae49a02dd47b/redeliver"  
       },  
       "history": {  
           "href": "/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/e5269842-024f-49bf-8a39-67aec8048b42/events/28da8068-61cc-4af3-8d5e-ae49a02dd47b/history"  
       }  
   },  
   "eventType": "entityUpdated"  
}`

To be honest, the actual data returned here doesn’t matter; what matters is that the /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/events operations are connected to the Identity Cloud events store; they are not connected to the database of received webhook notifications maintained by your organization. Among other things, that explains why the payload value for each event looks similar to this:

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That’s because security event tokens are not decoded before being added to the event store. Instead, events are written to the database as-is.

Does it matter that the APIs are connected to the event store instead of your organization’s internal database? As a matter of fact, it does. Your organization’s internal database shows the event notifications that have been delivered. By comparison, the event store shows every event that has been generated for your organization. (Or, to be a little more precise, it shows every event that has been generated in the past 7 days; events more than 7 days old are automatically deleted from the events store.)

So why does that matter? That matters because it gives you a way to check how well the webhooks delivery service is working. If you thumb through the event store and see one or two failed deliveries (among thousands of events), that’s probably no cause for alarm. If you see hundreds of failed events, that could be a different story.

In Webhooks v3, the system makes 6 attempts to deliver an event. And what if delivery fails all 6 times? Well, in that case, the event state changes to failure, and no more delivery attempts are made. However, the event is not discarded, at least not right away. Instead, failed events are maintained in the events store for 7 days, and you can retrieve those failed events by using the event redelivery service.

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At the risk of repeating ourselves, you can use the /events operation to help verify that Webhooks v3 is working. But suppose it isn't working, suppose you find 100 events in the event store that were never delivered to your listener endpoint? In that case, you can use the /events operation and the /history operation to help diagnose and fix the problem. But you can't use those operations to download the undelivered events.

Updated about 2 months ago