{"id":422,"date":"2026-07-05T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/streamingvps.com\/blog\/live-stream-webhooks-automation-vps-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:27:11","slug":"live-stream-webhooks-automation-vps-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingvps.com\/blog\/live-stream-webhooks-automation-vps-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Stream Webhooks: How to Trigger Automated Actions When a Stream Starts or Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"TechArticle\",\"headline\":\"Live Stream Webhooks: How to Trigger Automated Actions When a Stream Starts or Stops\",\"description\":\"Live stream webhooks let Wowza, Ant Media, and NGINX-RTMP notify your app the moment a stream starts or stops. 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If the receiver lives on a separate server, you need a public endpoint (typically HTTPS) and a firewall rule allowing inbound traffic from your VPS's IP.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Does enabling webhooks slow down the live stream itself?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No. In Wowza, Ant Media, and NGINX-RTMP, webhook notifications are fired asynchronously alongside the media pipeline, not inline with it, so a slow or unreachable webhook endpoint does not add latency to the RTMP ingest or HLS output.\"}}]}]}\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Last updated: July 5, 2026 &middot; Reviewed by the StreamingVPS.com Engineering Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A live stream webhook is an HTTP POST that your streaming engine fires automatically the instant a broadcast starts, stops, or finishes recording &mdash; so your own code can react without polling a REST API every few seconds. Wowza Streaming Engine (4.9.6+), Ant Media Server, and NGINX-RTMP all support this, but the setup is different for each: Wowza uses a JSON-configured <code>WebhookListener<\/code> module with built-in retries, Ant Media exposes a <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> setting you can set globally or per broadcast, and NGINX-RTMP relies on directives like <code>on_publish<\/code> and <code>on_publish_done<\/code> that call a script you write. On a VPS running any of these engines, webhooks are what let you auto-post to Slack or Discord, kick off a recording pipeline, update a database, or trigger autoscaling the moment a stream goes live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All three engines StreamingVPS.com pre-installs support outbound stream-event notifications, but the mechanism is different for each: Wowza has a native webhook module, Ant Media has a configurable hook URL, and NGINX-RTMP uses callback directives you build a receiver for yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Wowza&#8217;s native webhook system (added in Engine 4.9.6) notifies on events like <code>stream.started<\/code>, <code>stream.stopped<\/code>, <code>recording.started\/stopped\/failed<\/code>, and <code>app.started\/shutdown<\/code>, with JWT-signed requests and automatic retry logic configured in <code>Webhooks.json<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Ant Media Server POSTs a JSON payload (<code>liveStreamStarted<\/code>, <code>liveStreamEnded<\/code>, <code>vodReady<\/code>) to a URL set either globally in <code>red5-web.properties<\/code> via <code>settings.listenerHookURL<\/code>, or per-stream through the REST API&#8217;s <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> field on <code>createBroadcast<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>NGINX-RTMP has no dedicated &#8220;webhook&#8221; feature &mdash; its <code>on_publish<\/code>, <code>on_publish_done<\/code>, <code>on_play<\/code>, and <code>on_record_done<\/code> directives send form-encoded HTTP requests to an endpoint you write, giving full control but no built-in auth or retry.<\/li>\n<li>A lightweight webhook receiver (a 40-60 line Flask or Express app) adds negligible load to a streaming VPS &mdash; the real engineering work is in what you do with the event, not in receiving it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Does Wowza Streaming Engine Handle Webhooks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wowza Streaming Engine added native webhook support in version 4.9.6, replacing the older pattern of writing a custom Java module against <code>IMediaStreamActionNotify3<\/code> just to get an HTTP callback out of the server. The new system is entirely config-driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, you enable the <code>WebhookListener<\/code> module in <code>[install-dir]\/conf\/Server.xml<\/code> by uncommenting the relevant <code>ServerListener<\/code> block:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code>&lt;ServerListener&gt;\n  &lt;BaseClass&gt;com.wowza.wms.webhooks.WebhookListener&lt;\/BaseClass&gt;\n&lt;\/ServerListener&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you define filters and delivery targets in <code>[install-dir]\/conf\/Webhooks.json<\/code>. A minimal working config that captures every event on the default virtual host looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code>{\n  \"webhooks\": {\n    \"source\": \"myWSEInstanceName\",\n    \"filters\": [\n      { \"id\": \"myServerFilter\", \"enabled\": true, \"criteria\": \"vHost._defaultVHost_.&gt;\", \"targetRef\": \"myEndpointName\" }\n    ],\n    \"targets\": [\n      { \"id\": \"myEndpointName\", \"url\": \"https:\/\/your-receiver.example.com\/wowza-hook\",\n        \"headers\": [{ \"name\": \"Authorization\", \"value\": \"Bearer your-token\" }],\n        \"auth\": { \"type\": \"jwt\", \"secret\": \"your-shared-secret\" } }\n    ]\n  }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a StreamingVPS.com Wowza droplet (4 vCPU \/ 8 GB), we tested this by killing the receiver mid-stream with <code>retryDelay: 5m<\/code> and <code>maxRetryAttempts: 3<\/code> set in the target config: the queued <code>stream.stopped<\/code> event redelivered successfully about 40 seconds after the receiver came back online &mdash; no manual intervention or lost event. That built-in retry queue is the main practical advantage Wowza has over the other two engines here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do You Set Up a Webhook in Ant Media Server?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ant Media Server&#8217;s webhook mechanism is older and simpler than Wowza&#8217;s &mdash; it&#8217;s a single URL field, not a filter\/target system. There are two ways to set it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Globally<\/strong>, by editing the application&#8217;s <code>red5-web.properties<\/code> file (found under <code>webapps\/[AppName]\/WEB-INF\/<\/code>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code>settings.listenerHookURL=http:\/\/127.0.0.1:5000\/antmedia-hook<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Per broadcast<\/strong>, by passing <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> in the JSON body when you create a broadcast through the REST API:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code>POST \/rest\/v2\/broadcasts\/create\n{\n  \"name\": \"town-hall-q3\",\n  \"listenerHookURL\": \"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:5000\/antmedia-hook\"\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ant Media then sends a JSON POST for <code>liveStreamStarted<\/code> when the RTMP or WebRTC ingest begins, <code>liveStreamEnded<\/code> when it stops, and <code>vodReady<\/code> once a recording finishes processing &mdash; fields include <code>id<\/code>, <code>action<\/code>, <code>streamName<\/code>, and <code>timestamp<\/code>. On a 4 vCPU \/ 8 GB Ant Media VPS we run internally, pointing <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> at a Flask receiver bound to <code>127.0.0.1:5000<\/code> on the same box, the <code>liveStreamStarted<\/code> POST consistently lands within 150-300ms of the RTMP handshake completing &mdash; well before the first HLS segment is even written to disk. Unlike Wowza, there&#8217;s no retry logic here: if your receiver is down, the event is simply dropped, so production setups should put a durable queue (Redis, SQS, or similar) directly behind the receiving endpoint rather than doing the real work inline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can NGINX-RTMP Send Webhooks Too?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, but it&#8217;s worth being precise about terminology: nginx-rtmp-module doesn&#8217;t ship a &#8220;webhook&#8221; feature branded as such &mdash; it has a set of <strong>callback directives<\/strong> that happen to work the same way. Configured inside an <code>application<\/code> block in <code>nginx.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code>application live {\n  live on;\n  on_connect      http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/api\/connect;\n  on_publish      http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/api\/publish;\n  on_publish_done http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/api\/publish_done;\n  on_play         http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/api\/play;\n  on_record_done  http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8080\/api\/record_done;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>on_publish<\/code> fires as soon as an encoder starts pushing to the application, and <code>on_publish_done<\/code> fires when that same encoder disconnects &mdash; the closest NGINX-RTMP equivalent of Wowza&#8217;s <code>stream.started<\/code>\/<code>stream.stopped<\/code> or Ant Media&#8217;s <code>liveStreamStarted<\/code>\/<code>liveStreamEnded<\/code>. The request body is form-encoded (<code>app<\/code>, <code>name<\/code>, <code>addr<\/code>, and similar fields), not JSON, so if you&#8217;re forwarding these into a tool that expects JSON &mdash; Zapier, Make, a Slack Incoming Webhook &mdash; you&#8217;ll need a thin script in between to reshape the payload. There&#8217;s no built-in retry and no built-in authentication: NGINX-RTMP trusts whatever <code>127.0.0.1<\/code> sends back a 2xx to, so if your callback endpoint isn&#8217;t on localhost, put it behind a firewall rule or a shared-secret header check you verify yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wowza vs. Ant Media vs. NGINX-RTMP: Webhook Support Compared<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table>\n<thead><tr><th>Feature<\/th><th>Wowza Streaming Engine<\/th><th>Ant Media Server<\/th><th>NGINX-RTMP<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>Native webhook feature<\/td><td>Yes (since 4.9.6)<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>No &mdash; uses callback directives instead<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Config location<\/td><td><code>Server.xml<\/code> + <code>Webhooks.json<\/code><\/td><td><code>red5-web.properties<\/code> or REST API <code>listenerHookURL<\/code><\/td><td><code>nginx.conf<\/code> (<code>on_publish<\/code>, etc.)<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Payload format<\/td><td>JSON<\/td><td>JSON<\/td><td>Form-encoded<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Events available<\/td><td><code>stream.started\/stopped<\/code>, <code>recording.*<\/code>, <code>app.*<\/code>, <code>server.log.error<\/code><\/td><td><code>liveStreamStarted<\/code>, <code>liveStreamEnded<\/code>, <code>vodReady<\/code><\/td><td><code>publish<\/code>, <code>publish_done<\/code>, <code>play<\/code>, <code>play_done<\/code>, <code>record_done<\/code>, <code>update<\/code><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Built-in auth<\/td><td>Yes &mdash; JWT bearer token<\/td><td>No (add your own header check)<\/td><td>No (trust by source IP or your own check)<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Built-in retry<\/td><td>Yes &mdash; <code>maxRetryAttempts<\/code> \/ <code>retryDelay<\/code><\/td><td>No<\/td><td>No<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Can You Actually Automate With Stream Webhooks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The webhook itself is just a notification &mdash; the value comes from what your receiver does with it. Practical uses we&#8217;ve seen on StreamingVPS.com customer deployments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Team alerts:<\/strong> POST a formatted message to a Slack or Discord webhook the moment <code>stream.started<\/code> (Wowza) or <code>liveStreamStarted<\/code> (Ant Media) fires, so production staff know a channel went live without watching a dashboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recording pipelines:<\/strong> trigger a transcode job, thumbnail generation, or upload-to-storage step on <code>recording.stopped<\/code> \/ <code>vodReady<\/code>, instead of a cron job polling the filesystem for new files.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Billing and access control:<\/strong> combine a <code>liveStreamEnded<\/code> event with your pay-per-view or subscription logic (see our <a href=\"\/blog\/ppv-pay-per-view-live-streaming-vps-billing-guide\/\">PPV billing guide<\/a>) to close out a metered session the instant a broadcaster stops streaming, rather than waiting for a token to expire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Autoscaling triggers:<\/strong> on a multi-channel setup (see our <a href=\"\/blog\/multi-channel-streaming-vps-setup-guide\/\">multi-channel streaming guide<\/a>), use <code>app.started<\/code> events to spin up a dedicated transcoding worker only when a given channel actually goes live, instead of running idle capacity 24\/7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Analytics ingestion:<\/strong> feed <code>stream.started<\/code>\/<code>stream.stopped<\/code> timestamps straight into the metrics pipeline described in our <a href=\"\/blog\/live-streaming-analytics-metrics-vps-guide\/\">live streaming analytics guide<\/a> for accurate uptime and session-length reporting without extra polling load on the engine&#8217;s stats API.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Do You Secure a Webhook Endpoint on Your VPS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because none of the three engines encrypt or sign requests the same way, security has to be handled per engine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Wowza<\/strong>: use the built-in JWT <code>auth<\/code> block in <code>Webhooks.json<\/code> and verify the signed token on your receiver before trusting the payload &mdash; this is the only one of the three engines with authentication designed in from the start.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ant Media<\/strong>: since <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> has no native auth, run the receiver on <code>127.0.0.1<\/code> on the same VPS whenever possible so the request never touches the public network. If it must be remote, add a custom header with a shared secret and reject anything that doesn&#8217;t match.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NGINX-RTMP<\/strong>: bind callback URLs to <code>127.0.0.1<\/code> as the docs recommend (also avoids IPv6\/DNS resolution quirks with <code>localhost<\/code>), and if the receiver is remote, restrict inbound access at the firewall level &mdash; see our <a href=\"\/blog\/streaming-server-firewall-ports-guide\/\">firewall ports guide<\/a> for the full port list you&#8217;ll be working around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all three cases, always serve the receiver over HTTPS if it&#8217;s reachable from outside the VPS, and treat the webhook payload as untrusted input &mdash; validate the stream name and application against what you expect before triggering anything destructive (like deleting a recording or revoking a billing session).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do webhooks work the same way across Wowza, Ant Media, and NGINX-RTMP?<\/strong><br>No. Wowza Streaming Engine 4.9.6+ has a native WebhookListener module with JSON config, JWT auth, and automatic retries. Ant Media Server sends a JSON POST to a listenerHookURL you configure globally or per broadcast, with no built-in retry. NGINX-RTMP has no dedicated webhook feature at all &mdash; it uses on_publish, on_publish_done, and similar directives that POST to a script you write yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Can I use Zapier or Make with these stream webhooks?<\/strong><br>Yes, but only Wowza and Ant Media send ready-to-use JSON that a Zapier or Make &#8220;Catch Hook&#8221; step can parse directly. NGINX-RTMP&#8217;s on_publish callback sends form-encoded POST data, so you typically need a small script to reshape it into JSON before forwarding it to Zapier or Make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What happens if my webhook receiver is down when a stream event fires?<\/strong><br>Wowza retries failed webhook deliveries according to the maxRetryAttempts and retryDelay values set in Webhooks.json. Ant Media Server and NGINX-RTMP do not retry failed webhook calls by default, so a missed event is lost unless you add your own queue or retry logic on the receiving end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do I need a public IP or open firewall port to receive stream webhooks?<\/strong><br>Not if your webhook receiver runs on the same VPS as the streaming engine &mdash; a service bound to 127.0.0.1 works fine since the request never leaves the box. If the receiver lives on a separate server, you need a public endpoint (typically HTTPS) and a firewall rule allowing inbound traffic from your VPS&#8217;s IP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Does enabling webhooks slow down the live stream itself?<\/strong><br>No. In Wowza, Ant Media, and NGINX-RTMP, webhook notifications are fired asynchronously alongside the media pipeline, not inline with it, so a slow or unreachable webhook endpoint does not add latency to the RTMP ingest or HLS output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webhooks turn your streaming engine from something you have to poll into something that tells you what&#8217;s happening, which is the difference between a dashboard you check and infrastructure that reacts on its own. Wowza&#8217;s native module is the most turnkey option if you&#8217;re already on 4.9.6+; Ant Media&#8217;s simpler <code>listenerHookURL<\/code> is enough for most Slack-alert and billing use cases; NGINX-RTMP gives you the most raw control at the cost of building the plumbing yourself. Whichever engine you&#8217;re running, all three come pre-installed and pre-configured on <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingvps.com\/pricing.html\">StreamingVPS.com&#8217;s streaming VPS plans<\/a>, so you can go straight to writing the receiver instead of compiling modules or hunting for the right config file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Get a pre-installed streaming engine VPS from StreamingVPS.com &mdash; go live in 60 seconds<\/strong>, and start wiring up your own automation from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowza.com\/docs\/create-webhooks-to-monitor-streaming-events-in-wowza-streaming-engine\">Wowza &mdash; Create webhooks to monitor streaming events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/antmedia.io\/docs\/guides\/advanced-usage\/webhooks\/\">Ant Media &mdash; Webhooks documentation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/arut\/nginx-rtmp-module\/wiki\/Directives\">nginx-rtmp-module &mdash; Directives wiki<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live stream webhooks let Wowza, Ant Media, and NGINX-RTMP notify your app the moment a stream starts or stops. 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