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Web3 Actions

This type of alert destination means your action will be used as a destination for the alert.
example.yaml
A single action can be used as a destination for multiple alerts. For more information, read more about this and Web3 Actions in general.

Webhooks

This alert destination allows for execution of your webhook when an alert is triggered. Your webhook will receive a signed payload, containing the transaction object that triggered the alert.
After adding a Webhook as an alert destination, you can use it as destination for other alerts.

How to use Webhooks for Alerting

The webhook requirements:

  • It must be reachable at the webhook URL: when you add the webhook, Tenderly sends a GET request to verify reachability. Any HTTP response passes verification; verification fails only on transport errors (DNS, TCP, TLS, or no response within 2 seconds).
  • It must expose a POST method with the same webhook URI. The webhook will receive a payload described below.
  • Deliveries are considered failed unless the webhook responds with a 2xx status within 10 seconds.
  • Using HTTPS for the webhook URL is strongly recommended.
The Webhook must respond with a 2xx status within 10 seconds. If there’s no response in that time-frame, the delivery is considered failed.
Tenderly keeps track of all executions. Webhook execution can have several statuses:
  • Success - indicates that the webhook was successfully executed and the event was delivered to the specified URL
  • Failed - indicates that the webhook was unable to be executed due to an error, such as a connectivity issue, a problem with the URL, or something else (check the response content to see what caused the error or contact our support)
  • Pending - indicates that the webhook is in the process of being executed and has not yet been completed
  • Retry - indicates that the webhook execution failed and will be retried; an event is delivered in at most 5 total attempts before the status settles at Success or Failed
  • Skipped - indicates that the webhook was not executed because it was disabled

Webhook payload

The webhook will receive the payload representing the alerting event. The payload consists of four fields:
  • id: String - ID unique across all delivered alert events (UUID).
  • event_type: TEST | ALERT - the type of webhook event type.
  • alert_id: String - the ID of the alert whose rule triggered this event. Empty for TEST events.
  • transaction: Object - an object representing an un-decoded transaction that triggered the alert and the webhook execution.
Upon adding the webhook as an alert destination, it will be invoked with a TEST alert event type.
Use the id field to ensure your webhook processes each alert event exactly once, by keeping track of processed IDs.

Securing the Webhook

You can enhance security of your webhooks using the signature validation method. This way, you can verify that the request to webhook originates from Tenderly, before proceeding with the execution. The x-tenderly-signature header contains a cryptographic signature: an HMAC-SHA256 digest computed with the signing secret as the key, over the request payload followed by the timestamp. The timestamp is delivered in the Date HTTP header of the request.
The Signing Secret is unique for each webhook destination. Tenderly generates this secret and uses it to generate a signature for the payload. Keep it at a safe place.
Step 1. Obtain the Secret Signing Secret.
Copying secret signing key

Copying secret signing key

Step 2. Validate the received signature To validate the received signature, compute an HMAC-SHA256 digest using the signing secret as the key, feeding it, in this order:
  1. the entire webhook request payload,
  2. the timestamp (from the Date header of the request).
Lastly, compare the hex-encoded digest with the value of the x-tenderly-signature header.
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Debugging Webhook executions

To support debugging of webhook malfunctions, you can manually send TEST events, based on existing transactions from any network Step 1. Click “Test Webhook” in the header of the webhook page.
Webhook overview

Webhook overview

Step 2. Paste a hash of a transaction that matches your alert’s trigger
Testing webhook: paste the transaction hash

Testing webhook: paste the transaction hash

Step 3. Click “Test Webhook” to confirm and send the test event. Your webhook will be invoked with the transaction corresponding to the hash you pasted, and event_type of TEST. You’ll be presented with overview of that execution.
Result of a manual (test) execution of a webhook

Result of a manual (test) execution of a webhook