BugWatch alert webhooks
When a BugWatch alert rule fires (issue-count or metric-threshold), the platform POSTs to the rule's webhookUrl:
{
"rule": { "id": "bwr_664f…", "name": "5xx spike", "type": "METRIC_THRESHOLD" },
"severity": "critical",
"value": 187,
"title": "5xx spike: http_5xx_total is 187 (>= 100)",
"firedAt": "2026-08-05T11:42:00.000Z"
}These deliveries are currently UNSIGNED — no
x-newinstance-signatureheader, no retries. Treat an alert webhook as a notification to go look, not as an instruction to act on blindly:
- Put an unguessable path segment in your
webhookUrl(e.g./hooks/bw-alert-8f3a9c2e/) as a shared-secret stand-in.- Confirm the incident in the dashboard (or via your own monitoring) before triggering automation.
- An incident record is also opened in the dashboard for every firing, deduplicated per rule while open.
Severities: info | warning | critical.