Cloudflare · Schema
Cloudflare Notification Webhook Payload
The standard payload structure for Cloudflare notification webhooks. When an alert fires, Cloudflare sends an HTTP POST with this JSON payload to configured webhook endpoints.
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Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | The name of the notification policy that triggered this webhook. |
| text | string | Human-readable description of the alert with interpolated values specific to the event. |
| data | object | Alert-specific data whose structure varies depending on the alert_type. Contains detailed information about the event that triggered the notification. |
| ts | integer | Unix timestamp in seconds when the notification was generated. |
| account_id | string | The Cloudflare account identifier associated with the notification. May not be present in all notifications. |
| policy_id | string | The UUID of the notification policy that triggered the webhook. |
| policy_name | string | The name of the notification policy. |
| alert_type | string | The unique identifier for the alert category (e.g., advanced_ddos_attack_l4_alert, health_check_status_notification). |
| alert_correlation_id | string | UUID for grouping related alerts that are part of the same incident. |
| alert_event | string | The event state indicating whether the alert is starting or ending. |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudflare/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudflare-notification-webhook-payload-schema.json",
"title": "Cloudflare Notification Webhook Payload",
"description": "The standard payload structure for Cloudflare notification webhooks. When an alert fires, Cloudflare sends an HTTP POST with this JSON payload to configured webhook endpoints.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["name", "text", "data", "ts"],
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the notification policy that triggered this webhook."
},
"text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human-readable description of the alert with interpolated values specific to the event."
},
"data": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Alert-specific data whose structure varies depending on the alert_type. Contains detailed information about the event that triggered the notification."
},
"ts": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Unix timestamp in seconds when the notification was generated."
},
"account_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The Cloudflare account identifier associated with the notification. May not be present in all notifications."
},
"policy_id": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"description": "The UUID of the notification policy that triggered the webhook."
},
"policy_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the notification policy."
},
"alert_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The unique identifier for the alert category (e.g., advanced_ddos_attack_l4_alert, health_check_status_notification).",
"enum": [
"advanced_ddos_attack_l4_alert",
"advanced_ddos_attack_l7_alert",
"dedicated_ssl_certificate_event_type",
"health_check_status_notification",
"workers_alert",
"workers_observability_alert",
"access_custom_certificate_expiration_type",
"zone_aop_custom_certificate_expiration_type",
"universal_ssl_event_type",
"clickhouse_alert_fw_anomaly",
"clickhouse_alert_fw_ent_anomaly",
"real_origin_monitoring",
"failing_logpush_job_disabled_alert",
"expiring_service_token_alert",
"secondary_dns_all_primaries_failing",
"secondary_dns_zone_successfully_updated",
"secondary_dns_zone_validation_warning",
"sentinel_alert",
"traffic_anomalies_alert",
"tunnel_health_event"
]
},
"alert_correlation_id": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"description": "UUID for grouping related alerts that are part of the same incident."
},
"alert_event": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The event state indicating whether the alert is starting or ending.",
"enum": ["ALERT_STATE_EVENT_START", "ALERT_STATE_EVENT_END"]
}
}
}
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