Webhook

Webhooks allow you to create and update checks by sending HTTP POST requests to an endpoint.

github-webhook.yaml
---
apiVersion: canaries.flanksource.com/v1
kind: Canary
metadata:
  name: github-status
spec:
  webhook:
    name: Github
    transformDeleteStrategy: Ignore
    transform:
      expr: |
        has(results.json.component) ?
          [{
            "description": results.json.component.description,
            "detail": results.json,
            "duration": 1,
            "icon": "github",
            "name": "Github/" + results.json.component.name,
            "pass": results.json.component.status == "operational",
            "start": results.json.component_update.created_at,
          }].toJSON():
            results.json.incident.components.map(c, {
              "description": c.description,
              "detail": results.json,
              "icon": "github",
              "duration": 1,
              "message": results.json.incident.incident_updates[0].body,
              "name": "Github/" + c.name,
              "pass": c.status == "operational",
              "start": c.updated_at,
            }).toJSON()

This example:

1. Defines a webhook named Github accessible via http://<host>/webhook/Github
2. Transforms the incoming JSON into check

This webhook can be called with:

curl -s -X POST 'http://localhost/webhook/Github' --json '{
  "meta": {
    "unsubscribe": "http://www.githubstatus.com/?unsubscribe=mv95chy3sdq7",
    "documentation": "https://help.statuspage.io/knowledge_base/topics/webhook-notifications",
    "generated_at": "2024-07-19T04:47:30.290Z"
  },
  "page": {
    "id": "kctbh9vrtdwd",
    "status_indicator": "none",
    "status_description": "All Systems Operational"
  },
  "component": {
    "status": "operational",
    "name": "Copilot",
    "created_at": "2021-08-11T16:02:09.505Z",
    "updated_at": "2024-07-19T04:47:22.288Z",
    "position": 10,
    "description": "Orchestration and Compute for GitHub Copilot",
    "showcase": false,
    "start_date": "2021-08-11T00:00:00.000Z",
    "id": "h2ftsgbw7kmk",
    "page_id": "kctbh9vrtdwd",
    "group_id": null
  },
  "component_update": {
    "old_status": "partial_outage",
    "new_status": "operational",
    "created_at": "2024-07-19T04:47:22.293Z",
    "component_type": "Component",
    "state": "sn_created",
    "id": "zm5p6v0wb9ts",
    "component_id": "h2ftsgbw7kmk"
  }
}'

Input

The request is available to the transformation function with these fields:

Field	Description	Scheme
results.content	Request body text, See YAML, CSV	string
results.headers		map[string]string
results.json	If Content-Type: application/json unmarshalls the request body to a JSON	JSON Object|Array

Output

The return value is a list of checks

Field	Description	Scheme
name*	Name of the check to use, the name is used to lookup existing checks to update	string
pass*	Set to true if the health check is passing	boolean
duration	Time in ms for duration of the check	int64
invalid	Set to true if the check is not configured correctly, and can never pass	boolean
deletedAt	The time the check or event logically ended	time.Time
error	An error message to be shown, if non-empty sets pass: false automatically	string
icon		Icon
labels		map[string]string
message	Informational message to be shown to users	string
namespace		string
start	The time the check or event logically started (e.g if coming from an external source)	time.Time
data		map[string]interface{}
description		string
detail		interface{}
displayType		string
endpoint		string
metrics	Add custom metrics to be exported	[]Metric
transformDeleteStrategy	How to handle checks that were returned in a previous transformation, but not in the current	MarkHealthy | MarkUnhealthy | Ignore
type		string