Animating Incidents with webhooks, Firebase and d3.js

PagerDuty is introducing Webhooks for incidents, allowing users to receive HTTP callbacks when specific events occur in their accounts, with details sent to a designated URL. The author demonstrates using Firebase to receive Webhooks without building a backend, highlighting the ease of integration and setup. Through a hackday project, they visualize incoming incident data by modifying a d3.js example, assigning pseudo-geographic coordinates to incidents and displaying the last 40 received Webhooks. Although the project code is not presented as a model of JavaScript or d3.js excellence, it effectively illustrates the potential of Webhooks in real-time data visualization. Webhooks are currently available to a limited group of PagerDuty users, with interested parties encouraged to contact support for access.