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On 19 feb 2014, at 15:44, David Boike notifications@github.com wrote:
@dannycohen and I were discussing the integration story for ServiceControl with other reporting services and he mentioned that special plugins for popular packages (SCOM, Nagios, New Relic, etc) were likely. While this is all good, you can never please everybody unless you provide a generic way to theoretically integrate with anything. I think web hooks (with a corresponding editor in ServicePulse perhaps) could fit that bill.
Basically when certain events occur, a JSON payload would be POSTed to a URI of the customer's choosing. You can recommend they use something like http://requestb.in/ to debug.
I've seen this work very well for Fog Creek with their Kiln source control project. When you push commits, they have pre-built hooks for popular stuff (HipChat, TeamCity, Campfire) but then you can do custom hooks. I used it to post to one of my servers, which relayed an NServiceBus command, which eventually triggered project builds on my behind-the-firewall Jenkins server.
The beauty is really if the web hook service can be made generic enough (replaceable JSON payload templates, etc.) then even if not all that functionality is exposed to the editing UI, more specialized plugins can be more easily made by inheriting from the web hooks components.
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@dannycohen and I were discussing the integration story for ServiceControl with other reporting services and he mentioned that special plugins for popular packages (SCOM, Nagios, New Relic, etc) were likely. While this is all good, you can never please everybody unless you provide a generic way to theoretically integrate with anything. I think web hooks (with a corresponding editor in ServicePulse perhaps) could fit that bill.
Basically when certain events occur, a JSON payload would be POSTed to a URI of the customer's choosing. You can recommend they use something like http://requestb.in/ to debug.
I've seen this work very well for Fog Creek with their Kiln source control project. When you push commits, they have pre-built hooks for popular stuff (HipChat, TeamCity, Campfire) but then you can do custom hooks. I used it to post to one of my servers, which relayed an NServiceBus command, which eventually triggered project builds on my behind-the-firewall Jenkins server.
The beauty is really if the web hook service can be made generic enough (replaceable JSON payload templates, etc.) then even if not all that functionality is exposed to the editing UI, more specialized plugins can be more easily made by inheriting from the web hooks components.