Monitor failed logins in Webhook
Catch the login failures that look like an attack — repeated misses from one address — with geo and network context attached before they reach you.
01source
02pipeline · 3 steps
- 01CTLfilter.matchattempt ≥ 5 only
- 02ENRenrich.entityip → geo · asn · known-bad
- 03MUTredact.piimask email before posting
03destinations · 1
- towebhook.outWebhookurlhttps://api.acme.com/hooks
the event
You emit login.failed with this shape. The TypeScript SDK keeps the call type-safe, and the event is stored whole — so every field below is available to the pipeline by name.
- emailstring
- ipstring
- reasonstringbad-password | locked | mfa
- attemptnumberconsecutive misses
emit it
From your code with the TypeScript SDK — or any language over the REST endpoint and signed webhook ingress.
import { ingest } from "@ingestlayer/sdk";
await ingest("login.failed", {
email: creds.email,
ip: req.ip,
reason: result.reason,
attempt: result.consecutive,
});route it to Webhook
POST the processed event as JSON to any HTTPS endpoint you control.
- 01
set the URL
Any HTTPS endpoint. The processed event is delivered as a JSON body on POST.
- 02
choose auth
None, a bearer token, or HMAC signing. Signed requests carry an X-Ingestlayer-Signature header you verify with your shared secret.
- 03
confirm receipt
Return a 2xx within the timeout. Non-2xx responses trigger retries with exponential backoff before the delivery dead-letters.
POST /hooks HTTP/1.1
Host: api.acme.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-Ingestlayer-Signature: t=1717000000,v1=9f86d08…
{
"type": "user.signed_up",
"payload": { "email": "ada@acme.com", "plan": "pro" }
}notes
- Endpoints must respond within 10 seconds; slower responses are treated as failures and retried.
- Retries use exponential backoff for several attempts before dead-lettering — make your handler idempotent.
- Verify the HMAC signature before trusting a payload; the raw body is signed, so compute the digest before JSON parsing.
questions
- How do I avoid alerting on typos?
- Filter on the attempt count so a single fat-fingered password stays quiet and only sustained failures escalate.
- Where does the geo come from?
- enrich.entity resolves the IP to geo, ASN, and a known-bad flag in flight, so the alert carries the context to act on.
- Is it safe to post emails to a channel?
- redact.pii masks the email for the chat destination while the full record still lands in your audit table.
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