Webhooks

Change streams can deliver events to external HTTP endpoints:

CREATE CHANGE STREAM order_events ON orders
WITH (
    DELIVERY = 'webhook',
    URL = 'https://hooks.example.com/orders',
    RETRY = 3,
    TIMEOUT = '5s'
);

Headers

Each POST includes:

Retry Behavior

Exponential backoff. 4xx client errors (except 429) are not retried. 5xx and timeouts retry up to the configured limit. Persistent failures go to the dead-letter queue.