Ask HN: How do you monitor and retry failed webhooks in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105306
by GoatPerfect • 5 months ago
4 6 5 months ago

I’ve been working on a project where webhooks are a core part of the system, and I realized how fragile they can be in practice.

Transient network errors, timeouts, downstream issues — things fail more often than expected.

I’m curious how others are handling this in production.

Are you building custom retry logic?

Using a queue?

Relying on provider retries?

Just logging and manually checking failures?

Do you monitor webhook delivery rates or alert on repeated failures?

Would love to hear what setups people are using and what’s worked (or not worked) for you.

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