Your Webhook Tool Can't Tell You What Actually Happened

You get a 200. Or you get a timeout. That's it. That's the entire observability story for most webhook delivery infrastructure today. A status code and a timestamp. Maybe a retry count if you're lucky. For a lot of use cases, that's fine. A notification fires, it either lands or it doesn't, you move on. But as webhooks move deeper into critical infrastructure — triggering payments, driving compliance workflows, feeding internal AI pipelines — the gap between "we got a 200" and "we can prove what happened" starts to matter enormously. The Observability Problem Nobody Talks About Most webhook tools give you a delivery log. It shows you attempts, status codes, response times. It tells you the system tried. What it doesn't tell you: Whether the payload arrived intact Whether the receiving service actually processed it Whether a duplicate was silently accepted Whether a replay attack succeeded What the delivery path was — which infrastructure touched the payload in