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# ask-marvin
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@Marvin is it possible to ship prefect cloud events to a third party platform?
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Yes — in Prefect Cloud you can forward events to third-party platforms. The main native pattern is: Prefect Cloud AutomationWebhook actionyour external system So, for example, when a flow run fails or a deployment completes, an automation can call a webhook endpoint in Datadog, PagerDuty, Splunk, your internal service, etc. Relevant docs: - Automations - Events - Webhooks - Custom notifications A few ways to do it: 1. Automation + webhook action - Trigger on Prefect events like
prefect.flow-run.Failed
- Send an HTTP request to a third-party endpoint - Customize the payload with templating 2. Custom webhook notification blocks - Useful if the third-party system expects a specific JSON body or headers 3. Programmatic subscription/querying - If you want a custom exporter, you can also consume/query events yourself via Prefect’s event tooling/API and forward them externally If you want, I can help you build a concrete example for: - Slack / Teams - Datadog - PagerDuty - Splunk / SIEM - a generic REST webhook If you share the destination platform, I can show the exact setup.
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@Marvin destination snowfake or sigma
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thought for 158.6 seconds
Yes — for Snowflake, the practical pattern is usually possible, but not direct-to-table from Prefect Cloud by itself. For Sigma, there’s no known native Prefect integration, so you’d generally use an API/webhook path or route through Snowflake. Best fit architecture: Prefect Cloud automationwebhookintermediary endpoint / ingestion serviceSnowflake Then Sigma reads from Snowflake. Docs: - Automations - Events - Webhooks - prefect-snowflake Recommended options 1. Prefect events into Snowflake Use an automation with a
call-webhook
action to send selected event payloads to: - an API Gateway + Lambda / Cloud Function - a small service you host - a Snowflake-facing ingestion endpoint That service can then: -
INSERT
into Snowflake - write JSON to stage storage for Snowpipe - batch/enrich events before loading 2. Sigma Sigma is usually the consumer of the data once it lands in Snowflake. So the common design is: - Prefect emits events - events land in Snowflake - Sigma dashboards/query models read those event tables 3. If you need no middleware You still generally need some HTTP-receiving endpoint unless Snowflake already exposes an endpoint in your environment that can accept the webhook and persist it. Prefect’s webhook action sends HTTP; it does not natively write rows into Snowflake tables. Important limitation There does not appear to be a built-in “send Prefect Cloud events directly to Snowflake/Sigma” integration. A simple recommended design - Create a Prefect automation for events like
prefect.flow-run.Completed
/
prefect.flow-run.Failed
- Use
call-webhook
- Send JSON payload to your ingestion service - Load to Snowflake table like
prefect_events
- Use Sigma on top of that table If helpful, I can draft either of these next: 1. a reference Snowflake schema + webhook payload for Prefect events, or 2. a minimal ingestion service example that receives Prefect webhooks and writes to Snowflake.