How do I send uptime alerts to a webhook?

In UpDog, create an alert for your monitor. In the alert modal, choose Webhooks as the destination and add your endpoint URL. Save, then send a test event and verify your service receives it.

What events should my uptime webhook receive?

Most teams send at least downtime and recovery. If you need more detail, you can record additional context in your own system after receiving the event.

How do I secure a webhook for uptime alerts?

Use HTTPS, validate a shared secret or signature if your setup supports it, restrict by IP/network where possible, and log event IDs to prevent replay or duplication.

Why are my webhook uptime alerts failing?

Common causes are non-200 responses, timeouts, DNS issues, or blocked outbound traffic. Check your endpoint logs and make sure it responds quickly.

Can I use webhook uptime alerts to open tickets automatically?

Yes. A common pattern is to receive the webhook, enqueue a job, and create/update an incident or ticket in your internal tools based on the monitor state change.

Webhooks alerts for uptime monitoring

Send uptime alerts to your own webhook endpoint. Webhooks are the most flexible integration for internal tools, automation pipelines, and custom incident workflows.

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How UpDog + Webhooks works

Webhooks let you send UpDog monitor events to your own systems. When a monitor changes state, UpDog delivers an HTTP request to your endpoint so you can automate incident workflows, tickets, and internal alerts.

Common use cases

Create or update incidents in internal tooling
Open tickets and annotate deploys
Fan out to multiple destinations from one pipeline

Implementation tips

Return a fast 2xx and queue heavy work
Deduplicate events (delivery is at-least-once)
Use HTTPS and validate secrets/signatures if available

What you can do with UpDog + Webhooks

Send webhook uptime alerts on downtime and recovery to your internal systems.
Trigger automations: create incidents, open tickets, annotate deploys, or fan out to other channels.
Build without lock-in: if your service can accept HTTP requests, it can receive UpDog events.

How to set it up (step-by-step)

Create an HTTPS endpoint in your system that can receive POST requests.
Create an alert for the monitor you want to route.
In the alert modal, choose Webhooks as the destination.
Add your endpoint URL and any configuration UpDog requests.
Save the alert, then send a test event and verify the payload is received and processed.

Best practices

Keep your webhook fast

Return a quick 2xx response and enqueue the heavy work. Slow endpoints cause retries, timeouts, and duplicate processing.

Deduplicate events

Store an event ID or a (monitor, timestamp, state) key so your system doesn’t create duplicate incidents when retries happen.

Secure the endpoint

Use HTTPS, validate secrets/signatures when available, and restrict access at the network layer where possible.

Troubleshooting

Webhook not firing: confirm the integration is enabled and the monitor is assigned to the webhook target.
Non-200 responses: your endpoint should return a 2xx quickly; log and inspect failures server-side.
Timeouts: enqueue processing and respond immediately.
Receiving duplicates: implement deduplication and treat webhook delivery as “at least once.”
Network blocks: ensure your infrastructure allows inbound traffic from UpDog and that DNS resolves correctly.

FAQ

Create an alert in UpDog, choose Webhooks in the alert modal, add your endpoint URL, save, and send a test event.

Start with downtime and recovery. Add additional logic in your system as needed.

Use HTTPS, validate secrets/signatures when available, and restrict access at the network layer if possible.

Check for timeouts, non-200 responses, DNS issues, or blocked traffic. Your endpoint should respond quickly.

Yes—receive the webhook, enqueue a job, then create/update a ticket or incident based on the event.

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