Feature Requests Allow placeholder in webhooks URL

Under Review

URLs for webhooks should have the option of inserting placeholders in the url.

E.g. the push service Pushover uses a url like: https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json?user=xxx&token=yyy&message=Website%20Down to send a push message to my phone.

I would like to specify the message, but the url would need placeholders which get replaced by updown.io.

E.g. like this: https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json?user=xxx&token=yyy&message={{description}} to use the webhooks data entry description.

Andreas Lenhardt
Created on February 15, 2024 · Last update on October 14, 2026
4 Comments
Adrien Rey-Jarthon

Thanks for this suggestion, this wouldn't work very well with the fact that webhooks could be sending multiple message at once (although it's not the case yet), but it's true that this would be a nice little hack to connect with Pushover directly, which has been requested a couple times already https://updown.canny.io/general/p/api-for-pushovernet-integration

Like   Feb 15, 2024 20:56
Andreas Lenhardt

Thanks for your response :)

Like   Feb 19, 2024 17:12
jeff@redradishtech.com

I am using webhooks to notify a Zulip channel of outages. It would be nice if updown.io could customize the topic to indicate which check caused the alert, e.g.:

https://my.zulipchat.com/api/v1/external/updown?api_key=...&stream=...&topic={{check.url}}+is+down

Like   Oct 13, 2026 23:10
Adrien Rey-Jarthon

Thanks for the use case Jeff, don't forget to vote for the suggestion too ^^ there's still the webhook bundling the prevents this for now but I may change this later

Like   Oct 14, 2026 07:04