Webhooks

Webhooks let you react to events in Ontora — a campaign starting, an interview completing, synthesis finishing — without polling.

How they work

You register an HTTPS endpoint and the events you want.
Ontora signs and POSTs JSON to your endpoint when a matching event occurs.
Your endpoint verifies the signature and processes the payload.
If your endpoint returns non-2xx, Ontora retries with exponential backoff.

Register an endpoint

Requires an API key with the webhooks scope.

curl -X POST https://api.ontora.com/v1/webhook-endpoints \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ONTORA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "workspace_id": "ws_...",
    "url": "https://example.com/webhooks/ontora",
    "events": ["synthesis.completed", "interview.completed"],
    "description": "Production sync"
  }'

{
  "id": "we_...",
  "secret": "whsec_...",
  "url": "https://example.com/webhooks/ontora",
  "events": ["synthesis.completed", "interview.completed"],
  "active": true,
  "created_at": "2026-04-24T18:30:00Z"
}

The secret is only returned on creation. Save it now — you’ll use it to verify every incoming request. See Signing & verification.

To subscribe to all events, pass "events": [].

Test an endpoint

Triggers a real delivery with a synthetic payload — useful for confirming your handler is wired up:

curl -X POST https://api.ontora.com/v1/webhook-endpoints/we_.../test \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ONTORA_API_KEY"

Inspect deliveries

Every delivery is logged with the response status, attempt count, and last error if any:

curl https://api.ontora.com/v1/webhook-endpoints/we_.../deliveries?limit=20 \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ONTORA_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "wd_...",
    "status": "delivered",
    "attempts": 1,
    "response_status": 200,
    "last_error": null,
    "delivered_at": "2026-04-24T18:31:02Z"
  }
]

Retries

Failed deliveries (non-2xx response, timeout, network error) retry up to 3 times with exponential backoff. After max attempts the delivery is marked failed and stays that way — Ontora will not retry it later. Use the deliveries list to find and replay failures from your side. Per-attempt timeout: 10 seconds.

Disable an endpoint

Toggle active: false to stop deliveries without deleting the subscription:

curl -X PATCH https://api.ontora.com/v1/webhook-endpoints/we_... \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ONTORA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"active": false}'

Inactive endpoints are skipped at emission time — no deliveries are queued, so there’s nothing to replay.

Get started

Core concepts

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Webhooks

How they work

Register an endpoint

Test an endpoint

Inspect deliveries

Retries

Disable an endpoint

Next steps

Event types

Signing & verification

​How they work

​Register an endpoint

​Test an endpoint

​Inspect deliveries

​Retries

​Disable an endpoint

​Next steps

Event types

Signing & verification

How they work

Register an endpoint

Test an endpoint

Inspect deliveries

Retries

Disable an endpoint

Next steps