The SendGrid Event Webhook sends email event data as SendGrid processes it. This means you can receive data in nearly real-time, making it ideal to integrate with logging or monitoring systems.
Because the Event Webhook delivers data to your systems, it is also well-suited to backing up and storing event data within your infrastructure to meet your own data access and retention needs.
Event types
You can think about the types of events provided by the Event Webhook in two categories: deliverability events and engagement events.
Deliverability events such as "delivered," "bounced," and "processed" help you understand if your email is being delivered to your customers.
Engagement events such as "open," and "click" help you understand if customers are reading and interacting with your emails after they arrive.
Both types of events are important and should be monitored to understand the overall health of your email program. The Webhooks API allows you to configure your Event Webhook configurations.
Data storage
Currently, data staged to be be posted through the webhooks is stored in the US.
Operation overview
GET/v3/user/webhooks/parse/settings
Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (for global users and subusers)
Base url: https://api.eu.sendgrid.com (for EU regional subusers)
This endpoint allows you to retrieve all of your current inbound parse settings.
Operation details
Authentication
Headers
Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstringrequired
Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>
on-behalf-ofstringOptional
The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.
The public URL where you would like SendGrid to POST the data parsed from your email. Any emails sent with the given hostname provided (whose MX records have been updated to point to SendGrid) will be parsed and POSTed to this URL.
hostnamestring
A specific and unique domain or subdomain that you have created to use exclusively to parse your incoming email. For example, parse.yourdomain.com.
spam_checkboolean
Indicates if you would like SendGrid to check the content parsed from your emails for spam before POSTing them to your domain.
send_rawboolean
Indicates if you would like SendGrid to post the original MIME-type content of your parsed email. When this parameter is set to true, SendGrid will send a JSON payload of the content of your email.