How to Set Up CircleCI Webhook Notifications with Webhookify

Published Feb 21 202610 min read
CircleCI webhook setup with Webhookify

CircleCI is one of the most popular continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, used by development teams to automate building, testing, and deploying their applications. Every time a pipeline runs, a job completes, or a workflow finishes, CircleCI can fire a webhook event with the outcome -- success, failure, or error. A failed build that goes unnoticed can block an entire team's deployments, while a successful deployment pipeline deserves immediate confirmation. With Webhookify, you can instantly receive human-readable notifications for every CircleCI webhook event on Telegram, Discord, Slack, Email, or your mobile device, ensuring your team reacts to build failures within minutes rather than discovering them hours later.

This guide walks you through connecting CircleCI webhooks to Webhookify, from creating your endpoint to receiving your first real-time build notification. Whether you are a solo developer running a personal project or an engineering team managing dozens of pipelines, this setup takes less than 15 minutes and dramatically improves your CI/CD response times.

Why Monitor CircleCI Webhooks with Webhookify?

  • Instant Build Failure Alerts: Know the moment a build fails without constantly watching the CircleCI dashboard. Webhookify delivers AI-summarized alerts within seconds of a failure, enabling your team to start debugging immediately rather than discovering the issue during the next code review.

  • Multi-Channel Delivery: Route CircleCI alerts wherever your team works. Send build failure notifications to a Slack channel, deployment success events to a Telegram group, and pipeline summaries to Email -- all from a single Webhookify endpoint.

  • AI-Powered Summaries: Instead of parsing CircleCI's JSON webhook payloads, Webhookify transforms build data into plain-English summaries like "Workflow 'deploy-production' failed on branch main. Job 'run-tests' failed after 3m 22s. Triggered by commit abc123 from David."

  • Deployment Confidence: Get a positive confirmation notification every time a deployment pipeline succeeds. This gives your team confidence that the latest code changes are live without needing to check the CircleCI dashboard.

  • Complete Build History: Every webhook CircleCI sends is logged with full headers and payload data. This creates a searchable record of all build outcomes for tracking deployment frequency, failure rates, and mean time to recovery.

Prerequisites

  1. A CircleCI account with at least one project configured (free to create at circleci.com)
  2. A Webhookify account (sign up free at webhookify.app)
  3. At least one notification channel configured (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Email, or mobile push)
  4. Access to CircleCI Project Settings with permission to manage webhooks (Admin or Project Settings access)

Step-by-Step Setup Guide

1

Create a Webhookify Endpoint

Start by logging into your Webhookify dashboard at webhookify.app. If you do not have an account yet, sign up -- the free tier is all you need to get started.

Once inside the dashboard, click the "Create Endpoint" button. Webhookify will generate a unique webhook URL that looks something like this:

https://hook.webhookify.app/wh/abc123xyz789

Copy this URL and keep it handy. This is the URL you will paste into CircleCI's webhook configuration. Each endpoint has its own event log, so you can create separate endpoints for different projects or environments.

Give your endpoint a descriptive name like "CircleCI Production Builds" or "CircleCI All Projects" so you can easily identify it later in your dashboard.

2

Configure Your Notification Channel

Before connecting CircleCI, make sure you have at least one notification channel set up in Webhookify. Navigate to the Settings or Notifications section in your Webhookify dashboard.

For Telegram: Click "Connect Telegram" and follow the bot authorization flow. This is ideal for developers who want instant build failure alerts on their phone even when they are away from their desk.

For Discord: Click "Connect Discord" and authorize the Webhookify bot to post in your selected server and channel. Choose a dedicated channel like #ci-builds or #deployments to keep build notifications organized.

For Slack: Click "Connect Slack" and complete the OAuth flow. Select the workspace and channel where you want CircleCI alerts to appear. A channel like #builds or #engineering-alerts works well.

For Email: Enter the email address where you want to receive build notifications. You can add multiple addresses to notify your entire engineering team of build failures.

For Mobile Push: Download the Webhookify app from the App Store or Google Play. Sign in with your account credentials. Enable push notifications when prompted so you never miss a critical build failure, even outside working hours.

3

Add Your Webhookify URL in CircleCI

Log into the CircleCI Dashboard and navigate to the project you want to monitor.

  1. Click on Project Settings (gear icon) for your project.
  2. Select Webhooks from the left sidebar.
  3. Click "Add Webhook".
  4. Fill in the webhook details:
    • Webhook Name: Give it a descriptive name like "Webhookify Notifications"
    • Receiver URL: Paste your Webhookify URL:
https://hook.webhookify.app/wh/abc123xyz789

  1. Under Events, select the events you want to receive:

    • Workflow Completed -- Triggers when an entire workflow finishes
    • Job Completed -- Triggers when an individual job finishes

  2. Optionally, add a Signing Secret for webhook verification.

  3. Click "Save" to create the webhook.

CircleCI will now send webhook events to your Webhookify URL every time the selected events occur. Each event includes the outcome status (success, failed, error, canceled) along with details about the pipeline, workflow, job, and triggering commit.

4

Configure Event Filters and Alert Preferences

Back in your Webhookify dashboard, click on your CircleCI endpoint to fine-tune notification delivery.

CircleCI webhook events include an outcome field that indicates the result:

  • workflow-completed with outcome success -- Workflow completed successfully
  • workflow-completed with outcome failed -- One or more jobs in the workflow failed
  • workflow-completed with outcome error -- Infrastructure or configuration error occurred
  • workflow-completed with outcome canceled -- Workflow was manually canceled
  • job-completed with outcome success -- Individual job completed successfully
  • job-completed with outcome failed -- Individual job failed
  • pipeline-completed -- Entire pipeline finished execution

Configure notification routing based on the event outcome:

  • Send all failure and error events to a high-priority Slack channel and mobile push
  • Route success events to a lower-priority channel or skip notifications for routine successes
  • Send deployment workflow completions to a #deployments channel for release tracking
5

Test Your Configuration

The easiest way to test your CircleCI webhook is to trigger a pipeline run. Push a commit to the branch that triggers your CI pipeline, or manually trigger a pipeline from the CircleCI dashboard.

Once the pipeline completes (whether it succeeds or fails), you should receive a notification on your configured channels within seconds.

Check your Webhookify dashboard to see the event logged with its full payload. The CircleCI webhook includes details like:

  • Pipeline ID and number
  • Workflow name and status
  • Job name and duration
  • Branch and commit information
  • Trigger type (push, API, scheduled)

If you do not receive a notification:

  • Verify the webhook is active in CircleCI Project Settings > Webhooks
  • Check the CircleCI webhook delivery logs for any errors
  • Confirm your Webhookify notification channel is connected and active

CircleCI Webhook Events You Can Monitor

CircleCI EventDescription
workflow-completedTriggered when workflow-completed occurs
job-completedTriggered when job-completed occurs
pipeline-completedTriggered when pipeline-completed occurs

Real-World Use Cases

  • Build Failure Response: An engineering team routes workflow-completed failure events to a dedicated #build-failures Slack channel. When a build fails, the on-call engineer receives an immediate notification with the failing job name, branch, and commit author. This reduces the mean time to detection from hours to seconds.

  • Deployment Tracking: A DevOps team sends deployment workflow success events to a #releases Telegram group. Every successful production deployment triggers a notification confirming the deployment, including the commit hash and author. The team maintains a live deployment log without any manual effort.

  • Nightly Build Monitoring: A team running nightly integration test workflows receives Email notifications for both success and failure outcomes. Each morning, the team lead reviews the notification history to confirm all nightly builds completed successfully before the team starts working.

  • Cross-Team Pipeline Visibility: A platform engineering team monitors CI pipelines across multiple projects by creating separate Webhookify endpoints for each project. They route all failure events to a single Discord channel, giving them a unified view of build health across the entire organization.

Example Notification

Here is what a typical Webhookify notification looks like when a CircleCI workflow fails:

New Webhook Event Received

Source: CircleCI
Event: workflow-completed (failed)
Endpoint: CircleCI Production Builds

AI Summary:
Workflow "build-test-deploy" failed on branch main.
The job "run-integration-tests" failed after 4m 18s.
Triggered by commit a1b2c3d from Sarah Chen with
message "Add user profile endpoint." Pipeline #1247.
Project: myapp/backend.

Timestamp: 2026-02-21T15:33:47Z

View full payload in Webhookify Dashboard

Troubleshooting

  1. Webhook not firing after pipeline run: Verify the webhook is enabled in CircleCI Project Settings. Check that you selected the correct events (workflow-completed and/or job-completed). Also ensure the pipeline actually ran to completion -- in-progress pipelines do not trigger the completed webhook.

  2. Receiving too many notifications: If you subscribed to job-completed events and your workflow has many jobs, you will receive a notification for each one. Consider switching to workflow-completed events only, which fire once per workflow execution and include the overall outcome.

  3. Missing branch or commit information: CircleCI webhooks include branch and commit data for most pipeline triggers. However, scheduled pipelines or API-triggered pipelines may have limited git context. Check the full payload in your Webhookify logs to see what data is available.

  4. Webhook delivery failures in CircleCI: CircleCI shows delivery status for each webhook attempt. If deliveries are failing, check that your Webhookify URL is correct and there are no network issues. CircleCI retries failed deliveries automatically.

  5. Notifications for all projects when only one is needed: CircleCI webhooks are configured per project. If you are receiving notifications for unwanted projects, check each project's webhook settings and remove any endpoints you do not need. Create separate Webhookify endpoints for different projects to keep events organized.

Set up separate Webhookify endpoints for your production and staging CircleCI pipelines. Route production build failures to a high-priority channel with mobile push notifications, and staging failures to a lower-priority Slack channel. This ensures critical production issues get immediate attention while staging noise does not cause alert fatigue.

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