Svix - Webhooks as a service

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⚡️ Feature Breakdown ⚡️
Language	Officially Supported	API Support	Webhook Verification	Other Notes
Go	✅	✅	✅
Python	✅	✅	✅
Typescript/Javascript	✅	✅	✅
Java	✅	✅	✅	Async support planned. (If you use kotlin, checkout our kotlin library for coroutine support.)
Kotlin	✅	✅	✅
Ruby	✅	✅	✅
C# (dotnet)	✅	✅	✅
Rust	✅	✅	✅
PHP	✅	🔜	✅

# Running the server There are multiple ways to get the Svix server up running. Docker is probably the most common one, but you can choose the one that works best for you. The Svix server is written in Rust 🦀, which means you can compile it into a static library for a variety of targets. Please refer to the building from source section below for more information. Please refer to the [server configuration](#server-configuration) section below for more information regarding the available settings. ## Deployment ### Docker You can use the official Svix Docker image from [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/svix/svix-server). You can either use the `latest` tag, or one of [the versioned tags](https://hub.docker.com/r/svix/svix-server/tags) instead. You can either use the example [docker-compose.yml](./server/docker-compose.yml) file with `docker compose` (easiest), `docker swarm` (advanced), or run the container standalone. #### With Docker Compose This alternative is the easiest because it will also boot up and configure `redis` and `postgresql`. This assumes you have Docker Compose v2 installed. #### Standalone container Running a standalone container is slightly more advanced, as it requires you to set some environment variables and have them pointing to your `redis` and `postgres` instances. You can pass individual environment variables to docker using the `-e` flag, or just create a file like [development.env](./server/svix-server/development.env) and use the `--env-file` flag like in the example below: ### Pre-compiled binaries Pre-compiled binaries are available for released versions in the [releases section](https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/releases). ### Building from source The Svix server is written in Rust 🦀 and requires a Rust build environment. If you already have one, you just need to run `cargo build`, otherwise, please please refer to the [Svix server README](./server/#readme) for more information about building the server from source. ## Runtime dependencies The server requires the following runtime dependencies to work correctly: - A PostgreSQL server - for the storage of events. - An *optional* Redis server version 6.2.0 or higher - for the task queue and cache. ## Redis/Valkey Considerations ### Persistence Please note that it's recommended to enable persistence in Redis so that tasks are persisted across Redis server restarts and upgrades. ### Eviction Policy Please ensure that your Redis instances are configured to not evict keys without explicit `expire` policies set. This means that `maxmemory-policy` should be set to `noeviction` or to any of the available `volatile-` policies. See Redis/Valkey documentation for further information. ## Server configuration There are three ways to configure `svix-server`: environment vars, `.env` file, and a configuration file. ### Configuration file You can put a file called `config.toml` in the current working directory of `svix-server` and it will automatically pick it up. You can take a look at the example file for more information and a full list of supported settings: [config.toml](./server/svix-server/config.default.toml). Here's a quick example of the most important configurations: ### Environment (variables or `.env`) Alternatively, you can configure `svix-server` by setting the equivalent environment variables for each of the supported settings. The environment variables can either be passed directly or by setting them in a `.env` file. The environment variables have the name name as the config names, but they are all upper case and are prefixed with `SVIX_`. For example, the above example configuration would look like this if it was passed in the env: ### OpenTelemetry You may send tracing information to the OpenTelemetry Collector which allows forwarding trace events to a number of external applications/services such as DataDog, Jaeger, NewRelic, Prometheus, Sentry, Signoz, and Zipkin. You can see more in [these instructions](./OpenTelemetry.md). ### Connection Pool Size The `db_pool_max_size` configuration parameter controls the maximum allowed size of the connection pool for PostgreSQL. This value defaults to a max size of 100, but you can potentially increase application performance significantly by increasing this value. You may need to consider Postgres and PGBouncer configuration parameters as well when tuning these parameters. The `redis_pool_max_size` parameter controls the maximum size of each Svix instance's Redis connection pool. Its default is 100. Note that only redis _queuing_ leverages connection pooling -- caching is fully asynchronous and so does not otherwise benefit from pooling. Therefore, you probably won't need to tune this parameter. ### SSRF Attacks and Internal IP Addresses To prevent SSRF attacks, message dispatches to internal IP addresses are blocked by default. However we understand that this doesn't meet the needs of every user say, for example, the service can only be accessed internally. To bypass these restrictions, see the `whitelist_subnets` configuration option, which accepts an array of CIDR-notation subnets to allow messages to be dispatched to. ### Webhook signature scheme (symmetric vs asymmetric) To ensure the security and integrity of messages, Svix signs all webhook messages prior to sending. Svix supports two types of signature schemes: symmetric (pre-shared key) and asymmetric (public key). Symmetric signatures are significantly faster (~50x for signing, and ~160x for verifying), and are much simpler (which makes verification easier for your customers), though they require the usage of a pre-shared key per endpoint (endpoint secret) in order to work. Asymmetric signatures on the other hand only require sharing a public key with your customers (not secret). Because of the above, using symmetric keys is both recommended and the Svix default. Using them is documented in the [verifying signatures section of the docs](https://docs.svix.com/receiving/verifying-payloads/how-manual). However, in some scenarios it may be beneficial to use asymmetric signatures, which is why they too are supported. For more information please refer to the [asymmetric signatures section](#asymmetric-signatures) below. ## Authentication Use valid JWTs generated with the correct secret as `Bearer`. E.g: Either generate one using Or if you are generating your own, make sure to use `org_23rb8YdGqMT0qIzpgGwdXfHirMu` as the `sub` field, and `H256` as the algorithm. Example valid JWT for the secret `x` (so you can see the structure): ### Using a different signing algorithm As mentioned above, the default algorithm for signing JWTs is `HS256`. You can select a different algorithm by setting the `jwt_algorithm` config to one of these supported values: `HS384`, `HS512`, `RS256`, `RS384`, `RS512`, or `EdDSA`. ## Operational (incoming) webhooks Operational webhooks are webhooks that you can subscribe to in order to get notified of important events occurring on the svix-server. The list of supported events is available in [the webhooks section of the API reference](https://api.svix.com/docs#tag/Webhooks). The operational webhooks utilize Svix, and are controlled by a special account service account with the following ID: `org_00000000000SvixManagement00`. The first step is to turn it on by setting the `operational_webhook_address` config to point to your Svix server. The most common value for this setting is `http://127.0.0.1:8071`, though it may be different based on your specific setup. The above step enables operational webhooks on this instance, and the next step is to enable it for your specific organization. As mentioned above, operational webhooks use a normal Svix account behind the scenes, so we'll first need to get the authentication token for this account. To do this you should run: This will give you a special JWT to access the operational webhooks account which is different to the normal JWT you use when interacting with Svix. Let's assume for example that the JWT it returned was `op_webhook_token_123`. To enable operational webhooks for a specific account we need to first create an application for it in the service account (remember: operational webhooks just use Svix behind the scenes). We'll use the default Svix account as an example: `org_23rb8YdGqMT0qIzpgGwdXfHirMu`. This is it, we now have operational webhooks enabled for the default account. The only thing left is adding an endpoint where the operational webhooks are going to be sent to. For example: Note how we use the org ID of the default account as the `app_id` (or rather `uid` in this case), when creating an endpoint. That's it. You should now have working operational webhooks. If you ever want to create a new endpoint, or modify an existing endpoint, you just need to generate a JWT for the service account, and then use the JWT like you would use any other Svix account. ## Asymmetric signatures As mentioned above, symmetric signatures are recommended. However, please read the following instructions on setting up asymmetric signatures if you have determined that asymmetric signatures are what you need. ### Configuring the keys By default, the Svix server generates symmetric secrets for endpoints, which in turn means messages will be signed with symmetric keys. To change this default, set the `default_signature_type` config to `ed25519` as follows: Additionally, no matter what the default is set to, you can still override it by explicitly setting a key on an endpoint. To set a symmetric key, set the endpoint secret to a secret prefixed with `whsec_`, such as `whsec_51TKyHBy5KFY1Ab98GQ8V60BkWnejkWy`. To set an asymmetric key, set the endpoint secret to a **valid** ed25519 base64 encoded private key prefixed with `whsk_` such as: `whsk_6Xb/dCcHpPea21PS1N9VY/NZW723CEc77N4rJCubMbfVKIDij2HKpMKkioLlX0dRqSKJp4AJ6p9lMicMFs6Kvg==`. Please note, that the expected private key structure is: `whsk_${base64(private_key + public_key)}`. For testing purposes, new asymmetric key pairs can be generated using the following command: ### Signature scheme Svix uses `ed25519(m)` for signing the webhook messages, and it constructs `m` the same way as it does for the symmetric signatures. When verifying the message you should also ensure that the timestamp is recent enough in order to limit the potential of replay attacks as noted in [the symmetric verification docs](https://docs.svix.com/receiving/verifying-payloads/why). ## Shutting down the server To support graceful shutdown on the server, all running tasks are finished before shutting down on a SIGINT/SIGTERM. This usually takes less than ten seconds. # Differences to the Svix hosted service One of our main goals with open sourcing the Svix dispatcher is ease of use. The hosted Svix service, however, is quite complex due to our scale and the infrastructure it requires. This complexity is not useful for the vast majority of people and would make this project much harder to use and much more limited. This is why this code has been adjusted before being released, and some of the features, optimizations, and behaviors supported by the hosted dispatcher are not yet available in this repo. With that being said, other than some known incompatibilities, the internal Svix test suite passes. This means they are already mostly compatible, and we are working hard on bringing them to full feature parity. # Re-driving Redis DLQ We have an undocumented endpoint for re-driving failed messages that are DLQ'ed. You can do this by calling `POST /api/v1/admin/redrive-dlq/`. To monitor the DLQ depth, you should monitor the `svix.queue.depth_dlq` metric. Any non-zero values indicate that there is data in the DLQ. # Development Checkout our project specific development guides to get started hacking on Svix! - [Svix libs README](./README_LIBS.md) - [Svix server README](./server/#readme) # Contributing Contributions are what makes the open source world go round! All contributions are very much welcomed and are greatly appreciated. Please refer to the [contribution guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for information on how to contribute. A quick how to for contribution: 1. Fork the project 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/some-feature`) 3. Make your changes 4. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'Implement an amazing feature.'`) 5. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/some-feature`) 6. Open a pull request # License Distributed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more information. # Sending guides Here is a list of guides for sending webhooks with Svix: * [Send Webhooks with Python](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-python/) (also w/ [Django](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-python-django/) & [Flask](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-python-flask/)) * [Send Webhooks with JavaScript](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-javascript/) (also w/ [NodeJS](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-javascript-nodejs/) & [Express](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-javascript-express/)) * [Send Webhooks with TypeScript](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-typescript/) * [Send Webhooks with Go](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-go/) * [Send Webhooks with Java](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-java/) (also w/ [Spring](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-java-spring/)) * [Send Webhooks with Kotlin](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-kotlin/) * [Send Webhooks with Rust](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-rust/) * [Send Webhooks with C#](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-c-sharp/) (also w/ [ASP.NET](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-c-aspnet-sharp/)) * [Send Webhooks with PHP](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-php/) (also w/ [Laravel](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-php-laravel/)) * [Send Webhooks with Ruby](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-ruby/) * [Send Webhooks with Svix CLI](https://www.svix.com/guides/sending/send-webhooks-with-svix-cli/) # Backed By