Webhook 401 – Failure Verdict
What this failure usually means
This page helps decide whether continuing to debug webhook 401 failures is worth it.
This page describes what this webhook failure commonly indicates at a system boundary level.
Common false assumptions
- The issue must be inside your application code.
- More debugging automatically increases certainty.
- Sender claims are equivalent to independently verifiable delivery.
Why debugging often goes wrong
Time is spent optimizing or rewriting logic without confirming a ground-truth request and an observable delivery path.
Responsibility boundaries
Some parts of delivery, retry policy, and upstream evidence are owned by the sender or the network path before your infrastructure.
When to stop debugging
Stop when further debugging cannot increase certainty without new observable evidence.