Webhook Monitoring
Know when your webhooks break, not when customers report it
Monitor webhook receipt, payload validation, processing, and downstream actions. Catch broken event flows before they cause silent product failures.
Why Webhook Monitoring Matters
Webhooks are the glue between your product and external services. Payment confirmations, event notifications, third-party integrations: they all depend on webhooks arriving and being processed correctly.
The problem is that webhook failures are invisible. The sender gets a 200 response from your endpoint, but the processing behind it can fail silently: a missing field, a malformed payload, a downstream service that never received the data.
Without monitoring each step, you only find out when a customer asks why their payment was never confirmed or their integration stopped working.
What Can Go Wrong with Webhooks
Payload arrives but validation fails silently
Your endpoint returns 200 but the data inside is missing required fields or has unexpected types.
Processing stalls without an error
The webhook is received but the worker that processes it hangs, times out, or never picks it up.
Downstream action never fires
The webhook was processed but the next step (sending a notification, updating a record, triggering a sync) did not happen.
Retries mask the real problem
The sender retries and eventually succeeds, but the original failure and its side effects go unnoticed.
How upti.my Monitors Webhooks
upti.my tracks each stage of webhook processing as a step in a monitored workflow:
If any step does not check in, checks in late, or reports invalid data, you get alerted with the exact step that failed and the context around it.
What You Can Track
Works with Any Webhook Source
upti.my monitors the processing side of webhooks, so it works regardless of who sends the event:
Frequently Asked Questions
What does webhook monitoring actually check?
Webhook monitoring tracks the full lifecycle: whether the webhook was received, whether the payload passed validation, whether processing completed, and whether downstream actions fired correctly. It goes beyond checking if a URL is reachable.
How does upti.my know if a webhook payload is invalid?
You define expected fields and validation rules for each webhook step. When a payload arrives with missing or malformed data, upti.my flags it as a validation failure even if the HTTP request itself returned 200.
Can I monitor webhooks from third-party services like Stripe or GitHub?
Yes. You instrument the processing side of the webhook. When your system receives and processes a webhook from any provider, each step reports to upti.my so you can track the full flow.
What happens when a webhook silently fails?
upti.my alerts you when any step in the webhook processing pipeline does not check in, checks in late, or reports invalid data. You get visibility into which step broke and what data was involved.
How is this different from just monitoring the webhook endpoint?
Endpoint monitoring tells you the URL is reachable. Webhook monitoring tells you the event was received, the payload was valid, the processing completed, and the downstream action succeeded. Most failures happen after the endpoint responds 200.
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Stop finding out about broken webhooks from customers.
Monitor every step from receipt to downstream action.