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CircleCI Turns APIs into Push ‘Webhooks’ for Smarter CI/CD

CircleCI is extending its CI/CD tools to offer a pull API experience — instead of the traditional pull — for DevOps teams with its webhooks tool. It is possible to use webhooks to create customized notification systems to alert when a job is completed, or to ping incident response tools to alert of incidents to help improve workflow and response, Tom Trahan, vice president of business development at CircleCI, described.

To that end, the creation of webhooks exemplifies CircleCI’s ambition to further extend its CI/CD tools to support DevOps teams, Trahan said. Webhooks thus reflect the type of support CircleCI provides and will continue to provide with new tool and platform releases in the future.

With webhooks, we want to make it as easy as possible for the end user to integrate webhooks with any of their systems, using Datadog, Sumo or maybe their own custom-built dashboard observability systems internally and to use webhooks and APIs to get everything that they need to integrate with their systems.”