Gateway Hub

Webhooks

Overview

The Webhooks page allows you to configure the publishing of events data to external applications using API calls. You can connect to multiple APIs or applications by creating multiple Webhooks. The Webhooks page displays the status of all existing Webhooks and allows you to create new Webhooks.

For more information on how to configure Webhooks, see Publish using Webhooks.

Webhook configuration

To create a Webhook, click New Webhook. This opens the Webhook configuration page. You must enter the details of the external applications API. Gateway Hub will send events by performing a HTTP request.

Field Description
Name Name of the external application.
URL URL of the target API.
Method HTTP request method. Choose from POST or PUT.
Batch size

Number of events to send in each batch. Setting this to 0 disables batch publishing.

Default: 0

Enable or disable this Webhook using the toggle labelled Enable Webhook.

Authentication

The authentication section allows you to configure authentication for the target API. The options are:

  • (default) Basic
  • None

If you select Basic then the following options must be set:

Field Description
User Username used to connect to the API.
Password Password used to connect to the API.

Attributes

The attributes section allows you to specify the information included in the events data.

Each event corresponds to a change in the state of an entity. You can specify which attributes of an entity should be included in the event data.

To include data about an attribute:

  1. Click the plus button.
  2. Select an attribute from the drop-down list.

Filtering

Filtering allows you to publish a smaller subset of your data. This can considerably reduce the storage and processing requirements of a downstream application. You can use one or more filter predicates to filter the data by message type and entity query. A record is published if it meets any of the includes conditions. However, a record is not published if it meets any of the excludes conditions even if it also meets an includes condition.

For example, given the configuration below, all metrics and events will be published for Entities where Application = Fidessa except where Department = Fixed Income

Include/Exclude Message type Entities
Include Events Application = Fidessa
Include Metrics Application = Fidessa
Exclude All Department = 'Fixed Income'

You can specify filters on entities using the basic or advance menus:

  • The basic menu allows you to select entities by specifying an attribute and a value.
  • The advanced menu allows you to input a filter manually.

Note: Events and metrics data are treated independently, some Gateway Hub components only use events data.

Snapshots

You can create a snapshot of the latest events in order to reset an external system in the event of a failure.