Why your webhook retries are probably broken
Most teams set up webhooks, add a retry mechanism, and call it done. Then one day a Stripe payment webhook fails silently, a customer doesn't get their order, and nobody notices for 3 hours.
Here's the thing — retries alone don't solve webhook reliability. You need three things:
1. Capture everything. Every incoming event needs to be logged with its full payload, headers, and timestamp. When something breaks at 2am, you need the receipts.
2. Observe in real time. Dashboards that show delivery status, latency, and failure rates across all your webhook consumers. Not after the fact — right now.
3. Replay on demand. When a delivery fails, you should be able to replay it with one click. Not rebuild the payload manually, not dig through logs, not redeploy. One click.
That's exactly what we built Relynq to do. If you're a backend engineer tired of webhook-shaped fires, come check it out.
