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Policy webhooks enforce our security rules. Should failurePolicy be Ignore or Fail, and what does each cost?

Fail protects the policy, Ignore protects availability, and every real answer starts with per-webhook threat model plus scoping. The canonical outage, a webhook that rejects its own restart, separates the people who have run this from those who read about it.

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Fail protects the policy, Ignore protects availability, and every real answer starts with per-webhook threat model plus scoping. The canonical outage, a webhook that rejects its own restart, separates the people who have run this from those who read about it.

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