Oxide Computer Alerts Webhooks

generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/alerts/webhooks
docs:
- https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/alerts/overview
- https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/alerts/webhooks
- https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/alerts/reliable-receivers
type: Webhooks
asyncapi_published: false
note: >-
  Oxide publishes no AsyncAPI document, but it does ship a genuine, well-specified event surface:
  the alerts system. "Alerts are the mechanism through which the Oxide control plane notifies the
  outside world of events that occur within the system... while the Oxide HTTP API allows external
  software to make requests of the rack, alerts allow the rack to notify external software when an
  event occurs." Webhooks are presently the sole delivery mechanism. The receiver lifecycle is
  fully modelled in the REST contract (16 operations under the system/alerts tag), which is why
  this is captured as a Webhooks catalog rather than a fabricated AsyncAPI.

delivery:
  transport: HTTPS POST to a customer-supplied receiver endpoint
  content_type: application/json
  success_condition: 2xx response
  timeout_seconds: 30
  retries: 'failed deliveries are retried up to two times'
  failure_modes:
  - endpoint unreachable
  - response timeout (30-second limit)
  - receiver HTTP error (3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
  replay:
    operationId: alert_delivery_resend
    path: POST /v1/alerts/{alert_id}/resend
    note: an operator can re-send a specific alert to a receiver after a failed delivery
  inspection:
    operationId: alert_delivery_list
    path: GET /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}/deliveries

signature:
  algorithm: HMAC-SHA256
  header: x-oxide-signature
  format: 'x-oxide-signature: a=sha256&id={secret-id}&s={signature}'
  encoding: hexadecimal
  multi_secret: >-
    Multiple x-oxide-signature headers are sent when the receiver has multiple secrets, which is
    how secret rotation works without dropping deliveries.
  secret_management:
    list: webhook_secrets_list
    add: webhook_secrets_add
    delete: webhook_secrets_delete

payload:
  shape:
    alert_class: string
    alert_id: UUID
    data:
      version: integer
      _: 'class-specific payload'
    delivery:
      id: UUID
      receiver_id: UUID
      sent_at: RFC3339 timestamp
      trigger: alert | resend | probe
  note: >-
    The `data` object schema is specific to the alert class and carries its own `version` field,
    so payload evolution is versioned per class rather than globally.

alert_classes:
  registry_published: false
  addressing:
    style: dot-separated hierarchical segments
    segment_charset: alphanumeric and underscore
    example_from_docs: hardware.turboencabulator.fault.side_fumbling_detected
    example_note: >-
      Oxide's documentation deliberately uses an imaginary class (a turboencabulator) to teach the
      hierarchy. It does NOT publish the concrete class registry as static documentation.
    real_classes_documented:
    - probe
    globbing:
      single_segment: '*'
      multi_segment: '**'
      constraint: >-
        Globs are evaluated per segment, not within one. A subscription segment is either
        alphanumeric/underscore text or a glob, never both — `example.*_thingy.some_event` is
        rejected.
  discovery:
    operationId: alert_class_list
    path: GET /v1/alert-classes
    note: >-
      The authoritative list of alert classes is served by the rack itself. Because the control
      plane runs on the customer's hardware there is no vendor-hosted endpoint to enumerate them
      from, so this catalog records the addressing scheme and the discovery operation rather than
      inventing class names.
  scope_examples_from_docs:
  - hardware component failures, such as SSD failure
  - normal-operation events, such as an instance rebooting

receivers:
  kinds: [webhook]
  authorization: 'alert receivers may only be created or modified by users with the fleet.admin role'
  operations:
  - operationId: alert_receiver_list
    method: GET
    path: /v1/alert-receivers
  - operationId: alert_receiver_view
    method: GET
    path: /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}
  - operationId: alert_receiver_delete
    method: DELETE
    path: /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}
  - operationId: alert_receiver_probe
    method: POST
    path: /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}/probe
    note: sends a synthetic liveness alert (trigger=probe) to test delivery
  - operationId: alert_receiver_subscription_add
    method: POST
    path: /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}/subscriptions
  - operationId: alert_receiver_subscription_remove
    method: DELETE
    path: /v1/alert-receivers/{receiver}/subscriptions/{subscription}
  - operationId: webhook_receiver_create
    method: POST
    path: /v1/webhook-receivers
  - operationId: webhook_receiver_update
    method: PUT
    path: /v1/webhook-receivers/{receiver}
  - operationId: alert_list
    method: GET
    path: /v1/alerts
  - operationId: alert_view
    method: GET
    path: /v1/alerts/{alert_id}
  - operationId: alert_class_list
    method: GET
    path: /v1/alert-classes
operation_count: 16