product | Jul 1, 2021

How to Use Filter to Search and Find Webhooks

Eric Tran

For one of the many reasons (monitor, troubleshoot, retry,etc) you want to find a specfic webhooks or a set of webhooks.

In this guide, you will learn how to leverage the filters in Events View. Knowing how to use filters helps you monitor webhooks, find the webhook you are searching for, and leverage the bulk retry functionality. In this article we will cover the benefits of each filter; we will also look at simple examples of bulk retry, followed by a use case that illustrates what it looks like when we implement the filters covered in this guide.

How To Use Filters

Hookdeck offers many filters that can be combined for a better experience. It's recommended to use multiple filters to narrow your search as much as possible.

Applying filters

Select a filter.

Select a filter

Set the filter.
Click "Apply Filters" or click outside the filter box to apply.

apply filters

Clearing filters

You can either individually remove a filter or select "Clear All."

clear filters

What are the filters

1) Date

The Date filter narrows your result to find webhooks in a specific time range. Something to note is that a date starts at 00:00 of that day.

To search a single day, select the desired day as the Start date and the next day as the End date.
To search a range of dates, select the desired start date as the Start date and the desired last day, plus one extra day, for the End date.

date filters

For example, here we are looking for webhooks between the 11th of June 2021, 00:00 and the 12th of June 2021, 00:00. Notice that in this example, the search would not reveal webhooks received on the 12th of June.

To change dates, you need to click "Reset dates" and then select a new time range.

2) Request

The Request filter narrows your results based on element(s) in the header, body, query or path. This filter is great when you want to be extremely precise in your search; one popular use case is filtering using an ID. Something to note is that you do not need to specify the entire payload. All you need is the snippet of the subset you are looking for, because the filter is a partial match.

This filter requires knowledge on how to use our JSON filtering syntax. You can learn more about it [here.](https://hookdeck.com/docs/connection-filters#filter-syntax)

Header

Filter webhooks using a value in the header.

header filter

For example, here we searching for webhooks that have {"x-shopify-topic": "carts/create"} in their header.

Body

Filter webhooks using a value in the request body.

body filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that contain 12345678 in their ID.

Query

Filter webhooks using a value in a query.

query filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that have the query friend = yes.

Path

Filter webhooks using the path.

prod filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that have been delivered to the path /prod-deploy.

3) Connection

The Connection filter narrows your webhook search based on its connection. This filter is great for troubleshooting specific integrations.

connections filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that are linked to the connection Github -> Deploy.

4) Source

The Source filter narrows your webhook search based on its source. This filter is great for troubleshooting by API provider.

Source filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that are coming from the source Shopify.

5) Destination

The Destination filter narrows your result based on the webhook's destination. This filter is a great option for troubleshooting per API.

destination filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that are sent to the destination My API.

6) Status

The Status filter narrows your result based on the status of the webhook. This filter is a great option if you want to monitor the overall state of your webhooks.

There are two ways to set this filter.

The filter box.

Status filter

The event status tab on the left sidebar.

sidebar status filter

In both of these examples, we are searching for webhooks that have a Failed status.

When you have selected a status using the left side bar, your status filter will not be cleared even if you click "Clear All Filters." You have to select the Events tab to remove the status filter.

7) HTTP Code

The HTTP Code filter narrows your result based on the HTTP code of the webhook request. This filter is great if you want to monitor and better understand what kind of issues are happening.

For a specific HTTP Code, enter the same HTTP Code in both the "Min" and "Max" fields.
For a range of HTTP Code, enter the lower bound HTTP Code in the "Min" field and the upper bound HTTP code in the "Max" field.
When you leave a field empty, it will assume by default the lowest value for "Min" and the highest value for "Max."

The HTTP Code displayed is what your server is returning to Hookdeck.

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that have an HTTP Code of 422 and above (the search will include 500's).

8) CLI Users

The CLI Users filter narrows webhooks by selecting the user's name. This filter is great when you want to isolate your webhooks from the other webhooks that are sent to users also using the CLI.

This filter is only available in the CLI view.

cli user filter

For example, here we are searching for webhooks that are sent to the user's (my) CLI.

Filters with Bulk Retry

Clicking the bulk retry button means retrying many webhooks at once. You can apply filters to specify the parameters of the webhooks you want to bulk retry.

Example of a bulk retry without specifying a filter:

bulk retry no filter

Example of a bulk retry with filters on the date and on the connection:

bulk retry with filter

Filtering to search webhooks tutorial

With all of these filtering options, it's simple to monitor and search for the webhook you are looking for, and bulk retry the exact webhooks you want! Let's go through an example on how to leverage the filters in a more complex use case.

In this example, Goku is sending webhooks to Piccolo and Chichi. We are going to search for webhooks that have been received on June 12th with an ID of 12345678 from Goku to Piccolo (connection), and an HTTP code of 422. This is my current list of events:

filter views

1) Date filter

I'm setting the date range so that it captures the 12th of June 2021 exactly.

Date filter use case

2) Request body filter

I'm setting the filter for the body request to id:12345678.

request body filter

3) Connection filter

I'm setting the connection filter to Goku → Piccolo.

connection filter use case

4) HTTP Code Filter

I'm setting the HTTP code filter to 422.

5) Result

Great! We are only seeing webhooks events that:

are on June 12th, 2021,
have an id of 12345678,
are from Goku to Piccolo, and
with an HTTP Code that is 422.

filter view result use case

6) Bulk Retry

Once we have finished these steps, we can re-apply the same filters to bulk retry the webhooks.

bulk retry filter use case

And that's it! Happy coding!

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