---
id: 'webhooks'
title: 'Database Webhooks'
description: 'Trigger external payloads on database events.'
subtitle: 'Trigger external payloads on database events.'
tocVideo: 'codAs9-NeHM'
---

Database Webhooks allow you to send real-time data from your database to another system whenever a table event occurs.

You can hook into three table events: `INSERT`, `UPDATE`, and `DELETE`. All events are fired _after_ a database row is changed.

## Webhooks vs triggers

Database Webhooks are very similar to triggers, and that's because Database Webhooks are just a convenience wrapper around triggers using the [pg_net](/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgnet) extension. This extension is asynchronous, and therefore will not block your database changes for long-running network requests.

This video demonstrates how you can create a new customer in Stripe each time a row is inserted into a `profiles` table:

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## Creating a webhook

1. Create a new [Database Webhook](https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/database/hooks) in the Dashboard.
1. Give your Webhook a name.
1. Select the table you want to hook into.
1. Select one or more events (table inserts, updates, or deletes) you want to hook into.

Since webhooks are just database triggers, you can also create one from SQL statement directly.

```sql
create trigger "my_webhook" after insert
on "public"."my_table" for each row
execute function "supabase_functions"."http_request"(
  'http://localhost:3000',
  'POST',
  '{"Content-Type":"application/json"}',
  '{}',
  '1000'
);
```

We currently support HTTP webhooks. These are sent as a `POST` request with a JSON payload.

## Payload

The payload is automatically generated from the underlying table record:

```typescript
type InsertPayload = {
  type: 'INSERT'
  table: string
  schema: string
  record: TableRecord<T>
  old_record: null
}
type UpdatePayload = {
  type: 'UPDATE'
  table: string
  schema: string
  record: TableRecord<T>
  old_record: TableRecord<T>
}
type DeletePayload = {
  type: 'DELETE'
  table: string
  schema: string
  record: null
  old_record: TableRecord<T>
}
```

## Monitoring

Logging history of webhook calls is available under the `net` schema of your database. For more info, see the [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/supabase/pg_net).

## Resources

- [pg_net](/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgnet): an async networking extension for PostgreSQL