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Connect Clerk webhooks to Relin

Relin receives Clerk webhooks, verifies signatures, stores payloads, and delivers them to your endpoints with retries, alerts, and replay.

Open the Clerk dashboard

Before you start

  • Create a Relin workspace and sign in.
  • Have admin access to the Clerk account where you'll configure the webhook.
  • Decide which events you want to capture, or start with "all events" if you're exploring.

Setup steps

  1. In Relin, open your workspace and click New source. Pick the Clerk tile.
  2. Copy the ingest URL Relin shows. This URL is shown once, so store it.
  3. Open Webhooks in the Clerk dashboard.
  4. Add an endpoint pointing at the Relin source URL.
  5. Paste the endpoint's signing secret here.
  6. Save and send a test event from Clerk. Confirm Relin received it in your workspace.

Signing secret: Paste the webhook signing secret from Clerk (starts with whsec_). Clerk delivers via Svix, so verification uses the Standard Webhooks protocol.

What Relin does next

  • Verifies the signature on every incoming event and records the status (verified, failed, unchecked).
  • Stores the payload so you can replay or inspect it later, bounded by your workspace retention window.
  • Delivers the event to every destination you've connected to this source, with retries and per-destination rate limits.
  • Surfaces lifecycle gaps (for vendors with known lifecycles) as anomalies you can triage from the dashboard.

Test it

The fastest check is the events view in your workspace. After you send a test event from Clerk, it appears within a second or two. Click into the event to see the raw payload, signature status, and the delivery attempts to your destinations.

You can also use the REST API or the MCP tools to inspect the stream programmatically.

Clerk-specific notes

  • Clerk delivers webhooks through Svix, so the signing secret starts with whsec_. Relin decodes it and verifies Svix's v1 signature format automatically.

Troubleshooting

  • Signature status is failed: the signing secret doesn't match. Re-copy it from Clerk and update the Relin source.
  • Signature status is unchecked: no signing secret is configured on the source yet. Paste the secret on the source settings page.
  • No events arriving: check that the ingest URL in Clerk matches the URL Relin shows, including the token segment at the end.
  • Events arrive but destinations fail: open the delivery attempts tab on the event detail page. Each attempt shows the response body, status, and timing.

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