Monitor Webhooks in Go

Debug webhook issues in real-time

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The problem

Webhooks are essential but notoriously hard to debug in Go. A third-party service sends data to your endpoint. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. And when it fails, you are left guessing what went wrong.

The typical debugging flow is painful: check your logs, search for the request, try to reconstruct the payload, figure out why your handlers did not handle it correctly. If the webhook does not retry, you might lose that data entirely.

Testing webhooks locally in your Go development environment is another headache. You need tunnels, mock payloads, and a lot of patience. Production issues are even worse because you cannot easily reproduce them.

The solution

Quicklog captures every webhook payload as it arrives at your Go app. You see the full request body, headers, and any processing results. When something fails, you have the complete picture.

Create a channel for each webhook source. Stripe events go to one channel, Clerk to another. You can filter, search, and trace issues across your entire webhook infrastructure.

Add your own context too. Log what your handlers did in response to each webhook. Now you can see not just what arrived, but what happened next. Debugging becomes tracing a clear timeline instead of hunting through scattered Go logs.

Why monitor this?

See webhook payloads in real-time
Debug integration issues faster
Track processing success and failure

Quick setup

Add tracking to your Go app:

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

// Using Quicklog REST API

// Monitor Webhooks
func trackEvent(user User) error {
    body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{
        "channel":     "webhooks",
        "event":       "webhook.received",
        "description": "Describe what happened",
        "user": map[string]interface{}{
            "id":    user.ID,
            "email": user.Email,
            "name":  user.Name,
        },
        "metadata": map[string]interface{}{
            // Add relevant context here
        },
    })

    req, _ := http.NewRequest(
        "POST",
        "https://api.quicklog.io/v1/events",
        bytes.NewBuffer(body),
    )
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("QUICKLOG_API_KEY"))
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    _, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    return err
}

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