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Version: v2.x

Create an Event Trigger

Introduction

Event Triggers can be created using the Hasura Console, Hasura CLI, or Metadata APIs. Currently, support for event triggers exists for Postgres and MSSQL databases.

Note
  • Event Triggers are supported for Postgres and MS SQL Server databases.
  • Event webhook notifications will be delivered at least once, and may arrive out of order with respect to the underlying event.
Caveat on different Hasura instances connected to the same database

Event Triggers store their data in the underlying database and hence different instances acting on the same data can cause undefined behavior during run-time. This should not be a problem if the Hasura instances have the same metadata.

Creating triggers

Open the Hasura Console, head to the Events tab and click on the Create button to open the page below:

Create an Event Trigger
Note

UPDATE Event Trigger for MSSQL will only work on tables that have a primary key.

Parameters

Trigger Name

Unique name for Event Trigger.

Schema/Table

The postgres schema and table name on which the Event Trigger needs to be created.

Trigger Operations

The table operation on which the Event Trigger will be invoked.

Webhook URL

The HTTP(s) URL which will be called with the event payload on configured operation. Must be a POST handler. This URL can be entered manually or can be picked up from an environment variable (the environment variable needs to be set before using it for this configuration).

Note

If you are running Hasura using Docker, ensure that the Hasura Docker container can reach the webhook. See this page for Docker networking.

Advanced Settings

Listen columns for update

Update operations are special because you may want to trigger a webhook only if specific columns have changed in a row. Choose the columns here which you want the update operation to listen to.

If a column is not selected here, then an update to that column will not trigger the webhook.

Expand the Advanced Settings section on the Hasura Console to define advanced settings for an Event Trigger:

Listen columns for update Event Triggers

Retry Logic

Retry configuration is available in the "Advanced settings" when you create a trigger.

  1. num_retries: Number of times a failed invocation is retried. Default value is 0.
  2. interval_sec: Number of seconds after which a failed invocation is retried. Default value is 10.
  3. timeout_sec: Number of seconds before which client closes the connection to the webhook. Default value is 60.

Expand the Advanced Settings section on the Hasura Console to define advanced settings for an Event Trigger:

Retry settings for Event Triggers

Headers

Custom headers can be added to an Event Trigger. Each webhook request will have these headers added.

Each header has 3 parameters:

  1. Key: Name of the header e.g. Authorization or X-My-Header.
  2. Type: One of static or from env variable. static means the value provided in the Value field is the raw value of the header. from env variable means the value provided in the Value field is the name of the environment variable in the GraphQL Engine which will be resolved before sending the header.
  3. Value: The value of the header. Either a static value or the name of an environment variable.

Expand the Advanced Settings section on the Hasura Console to define advanced settings for an Event Trigger:

Headers for Event Triggers