assigned

A fault, or a bulk action’s faults, were assigned.

Fields

The table lists every field of the body. You can validate a delivery against this event’s JSON Schema.

Field	Type	Description
`event` required	"assigned"
`message` required	string	A one-line summary of the event, as notifications show it.
`actor`	object	The person who caused the event. Absent when Honeybadger, or an API token with no user, did.
`actor.id` required	integer
`actor.email` required	string
`actor.name` required	string \| null
`fault`	object	The fault. Absent for a bulk action, which sends `fault_ids` instead.
`fault.id` required	integer
`fault.project_id` required	integer
`fault.klass`	string \| null	Error class name.
`fault.message` required	string \| null	The error message, without the class name.
`fault.component`	string \| null
`fault.action`	string \| null
`fault.environment`	string \| null
`fault.resolved`	boolean
`fault.ignored`	boolean
`fault.created_at` required	date-time
`fault.project_name`	string \| null
`fault.comments_count`	integer
`fault.notices_count`	integer
`fault.last_notice_at`	date-time \| null
`fault.tags`	array \| null
`fault.assignee`	string \| null	The assignee's email address.
`fault.url`	uri
`fault.deploy`	object \| null	The latest deploy to the fault's environment.
`fault.deploy.environment` required	string
`fault.deploy.revision` required	string \| null
`fault.deploy.repository` required	string \| null
`fault.deploy.local_username` required	string \| null
`fault.deploy.created_at` required	date-time
`fault.deploy.changelog` required	array \| null	Commits in the deploy, as the deploy notification sent them.
`fault.deploy.url` required	uri
`fault_ids`	array<string>	The faults a bulk action changed. Sent in place of `fault`.
`assignee`	object	Absent when the fault was unassigned before the webhook was sent.
`assignee.id` required	integer
`assignee.email` required	string
`assignee.name` required	string \| null

Example

{
  "event": "assigned",
  "message": "[Billing API/production] NoMethodError assigned to Jane Doe by Jane Doe",
  "actor": {
    "id": 132624,
    "email": "jane@example.com",
    "name": "Jane Doe"
  },
  "fault": {
    "project_id": 85736,
    "klass": "NoMethodError",
    "component": "InvoicesController",
    "action": "show",
    "environment": "production",
    "resolved": false,
    "ignored": false,
    "created_at": "2026-10-18T12:36:26.482113Z",
    "project_name": "Billing API",
    "comments_count": 1,
    "message": "undefined method 'total' for nil",
    "notices_count": 1,
    "last_notice_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26.309680Z",
    "tags": [
      "billing"
    ],
    "id": 26225,
    "assignee": "jane@example.com",
    "url": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/85736/faults/26225",
    "deploy": {
      "environment": "production",
      "revision": "850510ab072102729e6967cf89f28b740c61311b",
      "repository": "https://github.com/acme/billing",
      "local_username": "deploy-bot",
      "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:16:26.482113Z",
      "changelog": [],
      "url": "https://github.com/acme/billing/commit/850510ab072102729e6967cf89f28b740c61311b"
    }
  },
  "assignee": {
    "id": 132624,
    "email": "jane@example.com",
    "name": "Jane Doe"
  }
}