Monitor Webhook Delivery for API Platforms
Ensure reliable delivery of customer webhooks from your API platform. Get instant alerts if recipient endpoints fail, preventing data inconsistencies and reducing support load for your customers.
The problem
As an API platform, providing reliable webhook delivery to your customers is a core feature. If a customer's webhook endpoint (where you send event notifications) goes down or starts returning errors, your platform's event delivery fails, leading to out-of-sync data for your users and a breakdown in their integrated workflows. This not only generates significant customer support inquiries but also erodes trust in your platform's reliability, impacting customer satisfaction and potentially leading to churn.
Many API platforms rely on internal retry mechanisms for webhooks, but persistent failures often go unnoticed until a customer reports data discrepancies or missed events. Manually debugging and replaying missed webhooks is a time-consuming and error-prone process for your development and support teams. Proactively monitoring your customers' critical webhook endpoints ensures that you are the first to know about delivery issues, allowing you to inform customers or take corrective action before they even notice a problem.
How Tickr solves it
Concrete example
// Example: Monitoring a customer's webhook endpoint
// Tickr ensures your API platform can successfully deliver events here.
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<span class="c1"># Example of a typical webhook payload sent to a customer</span>
<span class="c1"># Tickr would probe the customer's configured webhook URL.</span>
curl -X POST https://customer-app.com/api/webhooks/your-platform \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"event_id": "evt_abc123",
"type": "order.created",
"data": { "order_id": "ord_xyz" }
}'
<span class="c1"># Tickr expects a 200 OK response from the customer's endpoint.</span>
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