Testing

Two ways to exercise a webhook endpoint without touching production data: the dashboard’s Send test event button, and pivotal_test_ API keys.

1. Open Admin → Developer → Webhooks.
2. Pick your endpoint, click Send test event.
3. Choose an event type. The dashboard fills in a realistic payload — you can edit the JSON before sending.
4. The delivery shows up in the Logs tab with full request and response.

Test events from this button carry livemode: false and a fake resource id. They will not appear in your Pivotal app’s activity feed.

pivotal_test_… keys write to the same workspace, but outbound integration side effects (Slack, Resend, downstream webhook deliveries to your live receivers) are suppressed. Webhook endpoints flagged test_mode: true receive these events; live endpoints do not.

See Test mode for the full rules.

Pair the Webhooks dashboard with a local tunnel — see Local tunneling. The flow:

1. Run your receiver on localhost:8787.
2. Start ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel.
3. Register the tunnel URL as a Webhook endpoint, flagged Test mode.
4. Fire events from the dashboard.