Subscribe/receive specific fields only from Github's webhook payload

[evcodes]

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The maximum message size that can be received by an SQS Queue is 256kb. This limit is not adjustable and we have look at other alternatives but they are not as resilient.

We want to know if we can subscribe to specific fields from the push/pull request payloads instead of receiving the potentially massive payload for every event. We have missed webhook events because we hit this payload limit for pull requests that change many files.

[gm3dmo]

It's not possible to pick and choose parts of the webhook payload. You'll need to create a proxy layer that can do this or use an API gateway that can extract and forward on parts of the payload.

https://docs.github.com/en/webhooks/using-webhooks/handling-webhook-deliveries

[evcodes]

I know this is not possible today, my post was to submit a feature request such that only a subset of fields can be sent over from Github for all payloads. There are issues with APIGW -> lambda integrations as sometimes lambda might fail to receive messages which is not ideal for us. We wanted to design our system in a way that is more fault tolerant (i.e. an intermediary queue between gateway and lambda).