# JSON Webhooks **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [May 20, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024 "2015-05-20T19:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flecno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flecno/32/44811_2.png) [@flecno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flecno)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/1 "2015-05-20T19:16:52Z")
Hey, I try to build a simple Hipchat notification by using webhooks. If I use simple static messages my notifications arrive. How do I create a JSON payload body with mustache? I tried the follwing configuration: ```auto "webhook" : { "method" : "POST", "scheme": "https", "host" : "api.hipchat.com", "port": 443, "path": "/v2/room/watchers/notification", "headers" : { "Authorization" : "Bearer ROOM_TOKEN", "Content-Type": "application/json" }, "body" : "{ \"message\": \"{{ctx.payload.hits.total_hits}}\" }" } ``` But the notifications does not arrive my room. If I use a static `"body" : "{ \"message\": \"xxx\" }"` I receive my messages. So how to build JSON payload for my body? It seems the template would now work with my JSON curly braces. ---
**Author:** ![flecno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flecno/32/44811_2.png) [@flecno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flecno)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/2 "2015-05-20T19:43:14Z")
Oh I figured out my problem... The message is empty because there is no field `total_hits`. Your documentation contains many errors. But there is no _Edit_ Button as in your open source products. If I use `"body" : "{ \"message\": \"{{ctx.payload.hits.total}}\" }"` it's works fine except for the ugly escaped JSON string syntax. ---
**Author:** ![GaelTadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e8cbc/32.png) [@GaelTadh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GaelTadh)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/3 "2015-05-20T20:54:26Z")
Hi Flenco, You can also specify the body as a json template like so : ```json "body" : { "inline" : { "message" : "{{ctx.payload.hits.total}}" } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/4 "2015-05-20T21:41:01Z")
Hi flecno, thanks for reporting this documentation bug. We are fixing it now. ---
**Author:** ![mattgolding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@mattgolding](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattgolding)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/5 "2015-06-11T00:46:45Z")
I have the same issue with not being able to deserialize the data in the web server code. I tried @GaelTadh and I did notice a difference with my body code and I can see how that code would work with a single param like the total hits. My issue however is that I am looking at sending the records that came back in the search as I need to extract some information out of each document and perform some tasks on each one. Is there a way to JSONify the search results to accomplish this? Or is there a better way to do this via a transform or script? ---
**Author:** ![ShinJJang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@ShinJJang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ShinJJang)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/6 "2015-09-11T04:37:47Z")
Thanks, @GaelTadh!!! @GaelTadh's solution is also work to slack 500 error. This is my fault webook with slack: ``` .... "body": "payload = { 'text': 'error test\n 400 errors count: {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} \n' blah blah}" ... ``` Change to: ``` # In header, content type is 'application/json' .... "body": { "inline": { "text" : "error test\n 400 errors count: {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} \n blah blah"} } ... ``` Hope this is help to someone. ---
**Author:** ![Pransh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pransh/32/12806_2.png) [@Pransh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pransh)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/7 "2016-09-21T08:34:20Z")
Hi is there a way to send the complete payload received through webhook as JSON i want to send the complete payload i received based on conditions ---
**Author:** ![iantayrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@iantayrob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iantayrob)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/8 "2016-10-28T17:01:56Z")
I have the exact same question as Pransh. Can someone please answer it? The webhook data is not returning as JSON and I want to know why and what can be done about it. Otherwise, I will need to create a script to do the conversion, but that should be an unnecessary step in the pipeline. ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/9 "2016-10-31T06:54:51Z")
Hey, please open new subjects instead of reviving old threads - a lot has changed since almost one and a half years 🙂 First, if the data returned is not JSON, and you want to it to be JSON you need to convert it. Since Elasticsearch 2.4 there is an additional mustache helper handler called [toJson](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html#_converting_parameters_to_json), which may help you. --Alex ---
**Author:** ![Pransh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pransh/32/12806_2.png) [@Pransh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pransh)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/10 "2016-11-10T06:58:11Z")
Hi iantayrob "condition" : { "compare" : { "ctx.payload.hits.total" : { "gt" : 0 } } }, "transform" : { "script" : "return [body: groovy.json.JsonOutput.toJson(ctx.payload)]" }, Use this and you will receive the payload in JSON ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-webhooks/1024/11 "2017-07-06T13:42:09Z")