Provider reference / Sentry

How Sentry delivers webhooks

Sentry signs the raw body with HMAC-SHA256 and no timestamp in the signed payload. The verified format and a Node verifier.

Delivery behaviour

Read from the vendor's own documentation, last checked 2026-08-06. Where the vendor states no number, this table carries none.

Response budgetnot published by the vendor
Retrynot published by the vendor
Gives upnot published by the vendor

Signature

Verified against a working verifier proven by a test suite, not read from documentation. Last verified 2026-08-20.

AlgorithmHMAC-SHA256
Signed payloadraw body, no timestamp
Encodinghex
Headersentry-hook-signature
Tolerancenone enforced

Verify it

The raw request body, byte for byte, before any JSON parsing. Every scheme on this page breaks the moment a framework re-serializes the payload.

const crypto = require("node:crypto");

// hex(HMAC-SHA256(client secret, raw body)) — no timestamp anywhere
const expected = crypto
  .createHmac("sha256", clientSecret) // Settings → Developer Settings
  .update(rawBody)
  .digest("hex");
const valid = crypto.timingSafeEqual(
  Buffer.from(req.headers["sentry-hook-signature"]),
  Buffer.from(expected),
);

What bites

Nothing in the signed payload expires: no timestamp means a captured request verifies as cleanly a month later as it did live. Idempotency on your side is the only thing standing between a replayed capture and a re-run side effect.

Read more

AnyHook sits in front of endpoints that receive from Sentry: it answers inside the budget above, retries on its own schedule when your server is down, and keeps every event replayable. Change one URL, keep your code.

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