Configure WebHooks

BizTalk360 supports WebHook Notification Channel by which you can post the monitoring status and alert notifications to any REST API. Notifications are delivered via HTTP POST to a destination endpoint on your server, once the notifications are triggered via webhook as JSON response format, the user can use the notification details in their web services.

Setting up a WebHook notification in BizTalk360 is a two-step process:

• Configure the WebHook notification channel in BizTalk360 by entering the Web API, and other optional settings like the authorization credentials, payload, and default headers.
• Enabling WebHook Notification channel in BizTalk360 Alarm

Configuring WebHook Notification Channel

To configure the WebHook channel follow the below steps:

• Log in to the BizTalk360 application
• Click the Settings icon from the menu option at the left of the page
• Click Notifications from the left menu bar to expand
• Click Notification Channels 
• Select B360.Notifier.Webhook. Click on the ellipse icon next to the Channel name and click Edit to open the configuration panel.
• Click Next in case if you do not want to modify the DLL to open the configuration page
• Enter the API URL
• Notification Settings - Enable "Notify only Error(s) and Warning(s)" to notify only the error and warning state artifacts in the alert. Else the artifacts which are in a healthy state will also be listed in the alert
• Enter the Optional Properties
  1. Key – API key that needs to be added in the Authorization header
  2. Proxy Settings – Proxy server details if the BizTalk360 environment is behind a proxy
  3. Request Methods – POST/PUT based on the API
  4. Request Content-Type – XML/JSON based on the API
  5. Default Headers – Any additional headers that need to add to the HTTP request header
• Click Save to save the configurations

Enabling WebHook Notification Channel in BizTalk360 Alarm

The create alarm screen is flexible; you can simply create a regular alarm or a threshold alarm, or you can use the same alarm to monitor both regular and threshold conditions. To create an alarm in BizTalk360, you need to follow the steps below:

• Log in to the BizTalk360 application
• Click the Monitoring tab in the Navigation panel on the left side of the screen
• Click the Manage Alarms tab
• Click New Alarm and select the alarm type from the drop-down. Enter a descriptive name for the Alarm, Email id (you can enter multiple email ids as comma-separated values), and Alarm Description
• The user can enter multiple email ids as comma-separated values to receive separate alerts to all email IDs or enter semi-colon separated email ids to receive a single alert (email count) to all email ids in one go
• Under the custom notification channels section, enable the Webhook Notification Channel
• Click Validate to validate the configuration details of the notification channel
• Click Next to continue with the configuration of the alarm and save it