Overview: Receiving events and state
Event and state reception uses pushed messages or repeated queries with different timing and recovery properties.
Webhooks deliver requests to a receiver, WebSockets carry messages during a live connection, and polling observes state at intervals. A gap affects each mechanism differently. These pages explain which observation was actually obtained before silence or a reconnect is interpreted as complete event history.
Webhooks
A webhook pushes event information through an HTTP request to another application's receiver, whose acknowledgment and processing have separate meanings.WebSockets
WebSocket carries framed messages over a continuing connection, with message boundaries and reconnection state separate from individual network reads.Polling for updates
Polling queries current state at intervals, trading observation delay and request volume while potentially missing short-lived intermediate states.