Receive webhook requests using ELK

Receive Webhook Requests Using ELK

In this blog, we will see how you can quickly setup ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack to receive the HTTP webhook. Mostly ELK stack is known for logging purposes. But Elastic stacks are much more beyond the logging use case. Elastic provides Search, Observability & Security you can check more on this with official documentation. What is Webhook ? Webhook enables the two programs to communicate or transfer the data with the help of callback functions / hooks. Now in the modern tech world it is also known as Reverse API, Push API etc. Mostly it is used to send small amounts of data from source to destination. It is a one way data transfer procedure. It works over the HTTP protocol using REST API. It is simple like client and server communication. Most of the saas allow you to integrate their product with your system with the help of APIs and Webhook only. E.g. Slack and discord allows you to push messages with the help of webhooks. To accept the webhook event, You need to expose one HTTP endpoint lets say ...

January 23, 2023 · 5 min · Ashish Tiwari