Sitecore Webhooks in action
Sitecore introduced webhooks in Sitecore 10.3 release. The webhooks allows you to get real-time notifications on Sitecore server-side events to other systems. What are webhooks? Webhooks are basically HTTP call-backs. These are automated messages used for communication between two systems when an event is triggered on one system and the other system needs to be notified of the event. The webhooks payload usually consists of a lightweight message about the event in JSON or XML format. What is the need for webhooks in Sitecore? This is one of the features first introduced in Sitecore XM Cloud and later incorporated into Sitecore XP release. In a composable DXP with a SaaS based CMS like XM Cloud, we need an easy way to communicate with external systems using a plug and play framework like webhooks. This allows the CMS to notify the external systems of the server-side events happening at Sitecore so that the systems can take necessary actions of their own. An example of this is to clear e