This post introduces and explains the concept of webhooks, detailing their technical components, how they differ from API polling, and their benefits. It covers the event source, event, webhook endpoint, event payload, subscriber, HTTP request/response, security, and delivery/retry mechanisms. Use cases such as monitoring, incident management, infrastructure automation, event-driven automation, real-time notifications, and data integration are also discussed.
4/15/2026
This post defines webhooks, explains their technical implementation as HTTP POST requests to predefined endpoints with JSON payloads, contrasts them with API polling, and outlines key components like event source, event, endpoint, payload, subscriber, HTTP request/response, security, and delivery/retry mechanisms. It also details use cases in monitoring, automation, and data integration.