---
title: check_in_reporting
description: The v3 webhook payload for the check_in_reporting event, in preview. A check-in missed its schedule, or started reporting again.
url: https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/integrations/payloads/v3/check_in_reporting/
---

The v3 payload is in preview

Its fields can change before general availability. v2, the default, is unchanged.

A check-in missed its schedule, or started reporting again.

## Fields

The table lists every field of the body. You can validate a delivery against this event’s [JSON Schema](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/integrations/payloads/v3/check_in_reporting.schema.json).

| Field | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event` required | "check\_in\_reporting" | |
| `message` required | string | A one-line summary of the event, as notifications show it. |
| `payload_version` required | string | The integration's payload version. Allowed value: `v3`. |
| `actor` | object | The person who caused the event. Absent when Honeybadger did. |
| `actor.id` required | string \| null | The user's ID, or null when the person has no Honeybadger account. |
| `actor.name` required | string \| null | |
| `actor.email` required | string \| null | |
| `credential` | object | The API token or OAuth grant the event was caused through. Absent when the event wasn't caused through the API. |
| `credential.type` required | string | `ApiToken` for an API token, `OauthAccessToken` for an OAuth grant. |
| `credential.id` required | string | |
| `credential.name` required | string \| null | The token's name. For an OAuth grant, the name the user gave the connection, or the application's name if none. |
| `project` required | object | The project the event belongs to. |
| `project.id` required | string | |
| `project.name` required | string | |
| `project.language` required | string \| null | |
| `project.created_at` required | date-time | |
| `project.links` required | object | Links into the Honeybadger web UI. |
| `project.links.web` required | uri | The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on. |
| `links` required | object | The page to open for this event. |
| `links.web` required | uri | The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on. |
| `check_in` required | object | The check-in the event is about. |
| `check_in.id` required | string | |
| `check_in.project_id` required | string | |
| `check_in.name` required | string \| null | |
| `check_in.slug` required | string \| null | |
| `check_in.schedule_type` required | string | `simple` expects a report every `report_period`. `cron` expects reports on a cron schedule and requires `cron_schedule`. Allowed values: `simple`, `cron`. Default: `"simple"`. |
| `check_in.state` required | string | Allowed values: `pending`, `reporting`, `missing`, `paused`. |
| `check_in.reported_at` required | date-time \| null | |
| `check_in.expected_at` required | date-time \| null | |
| `check_in.missed_count` required | integer | |
| `check_in.created_at` required | date-time | |
| `check_in.links` required | object | Links into the Honeybadger web UI. |
| `check_in.links.web` required | uri | The resource's page in the Honeybadger web UI, as an absolute URL. Resources without a page, such as outages and deploys, don't have `links`. For a project provisioned through Heroku, error, notice and comment links go through Heroku's single sign-on. |

## Example

```json
{
  "event": "check_in_reporting",
  "message": "[Billing API] REPORTING: Nightly invoice run is reporting again",
  "project": {
    "id": "H99upHsM",
    "name": "Billing API",
    "language": "ruby",
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults"
    }
  },
  "check_in": {
    "id": "b3IAob",
    "project_id": "H99upHsM",
    "name": "Nightly invoice run",
    "slug": "nightly-invoice-run",
    "schedule_type": "simple",
    "state": "reporting",
    "reported_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "expected_at": "2026-10-22T12:36:26Z",
    "missed_count": 0,
    "created_at": "2026-08-22T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/check_ins/b3IAob"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/check_ins/b3IAob"
  },
  "payload_version": "v3"
}
```

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