commented

A comment was added to a fault, or to a bulk action’s faults.

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	"commented"
`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.
`fault`	object	The fault. Absent for a bulk action, which sends `fault_ids` instead.
`fault.id` required	string
`fault.project_id` required	string
`fault.klass` required	string \| null	Error class name.
`fault.message` required	string \| null
`fault.component` required	string \| null
`fault.action` required	string \| null
`fault.environment` required	string \| null
`fault.resolved` required	boolean
`fault.ignored` required	boolean
`fault.tags` required	array \| null
`fault.assignee` required	object \| null
`fault.assignee.id` required	string \| null	The user's ID, or null when the person has no Honeybadger account.
`fault.assignee.name` required	string \| null
`fault.assignee.email` required	string \| null
`fault.notices_count` required	integer
`fault.created_at` required	date-time
`fault.last_notice_at` required	date-time \| null
`fault.links` required	object	Links into the Honeybadger web UI.
`fault.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.
`fault_ids`	array<string>	The faults a bulk action changed. Sent in place of `fault`.
`comment` required	object	The comment that was added.
`comment.id` required	string
`comment.fault_id` required	string
`comment.body` required	string \| null
`comment.source` required	string	Where the comment was made, such as `web` or `email`.
`comment.created_at` required	date-time
`comment.author` required	object \| null
`comment.author.id` required	string \| null	The user's ID, or null when the person has no Honeybadger account.
`comment.author.name` required	string \| null
`comment.author.email` required	string \| null
`comment.links` required	object	Links into the Honeybadger web UI.
`comment.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

{
  "event": "commented",
  "message": "[Billing API/production] Jane Doe commented on NoMethodError: Looking into this now.",
  "actor": {
    "id": "DDiJ4d5",
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "email": "jane@example.com"
  },
  "project": {
    "id": "H99upHsM",
    "name": "Billing API",
    "language": "ruby",
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults"
    }
  },
  "fault": {
    "id": "26225",
    "project_id": "H99upHsM",
    "klass": "NoMethodError",
    "message": "undefined method 'total' for nil",
    "component": "InvoicesController",
    "action": "show",
    "environment": "production",
    "resolved": false,
    "ignored": false,
    "tags": [
      "billing"
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "id": "DDiJ4d5",
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "email": "jane@example.com"
    },
    "notices_count": 1,
    "created_at": "2026-10-18T12:36:26Z",
    "last_notice_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults/26225"
    }
  },
  "comment": {
    "id": "Mo6nm8kUsjuh",
    "fault_id": "26225",
    "body": "Looking into this now.",
    "source": "web",
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26Z",
    "author": {
      "id": "DDiJ4d5",
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "email": "jane@example.com"
    },
    "links": {
      "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults/26225#comment_2236"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "web": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/H99upHsM/faults/26225#comment_2236"
  },
  "payload_version": "v3"
}