IT OPS

Edge Heartbeat Webhook Ingest with Silence Flagging

Receives heartbeat POSTs from on-prem edge boxes, records each one to Postgres, and flags the device as healthy or stale so downstream monitors have a single source of truth.

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultybeginner
Triggerwebhook
Steps5
Setup~5 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerEdge box POSTs a heartbeatHTTP webhook
  • LogicValidate payload and known device ID
  • ActionRead previous heartbeat to compute gapPostgreSQLPostgres
  • LogicSet healthy / late flag from interval
  • OutputUpsert normalized heartbeat row to PostgresPostgreSQLPostgres

What it does

Provides the inbound endpoint that every edge box pings on its interval. Each POST is validated, timestamped, and written to the heartbeat ledger. The workflow compares the gap since the device's previous beat against its configured interval and stamps a `healthy` or `late` flag, giving the rest of your monitors a clean signal to read.

When to use it

Use it as the foundation under any heartbeat alerting. If your edge fleet phones home over HTTP, this is the front door that normalizes those pings into structured rows other workflows and dashboards can trust.

How it works

  1. 1An edge box sends an HTTP webhook with its device ID, site, firmware, and timestamp.
  2. 2A logic step validates the payload and rejects malformed or unknown device IDs.
  3. 3An action reads the device's previous heartbeat to compute the gap since last contact.
  4. 4A logic step sets the status flag: `late` if the gap exceeded the interval, else `healthy`.
  5. 5The normalized heartbeat row, with flag, is upserted into Postgres as the canonical record.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect HTTP webhookTrigger any URL on agent actions.
  2. 2
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  3. 3
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  4. 4
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  5. 5
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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