ai-automation-consultant / Failure Lab
Malformed JSON Webhook
The webhook endpoint rejects real client payloads before the workflow starts.
Category
webhooks
Difficulty
intro
Last Run
none
Incident Brief
Diagnose the parse failure and name the fix that preserves validation.
Broken State
The sender is posting text/plain with single-quoted pseudo-JSON.
Symptoms
- Webhook executions fail before validation rules run.
- Retrying the same body in a JSON client reproduces the parse error.
Trace
webhook.parse error=Unexpected token ' in JSON at position 1
content-type=text/plain body={'email':'sam@example.com'}