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Developer Experience
3 weeks ago

New Webhook: customer.balance_transaction_created

We’re excited to introduce a new webhook event: customer.balance_transaction_created. This webhook notifies your systems whenever a balance transaction is created for a customer, for example, when the balance is added via a refund credit note or deducted during invoice issuance.

To start using this webhook, configure your webhook endpoints in the Orb dashboard and ensure your systems are set up to handle the customer.balance_transaction_created event.

For more details, refer to our webhook documentation.

Developer Experience
3 weeks ago

♦️ New SDK Release: Official Ruby Support for Orb!

We’re excited to announce the launch of our officially supported Ruby SDK! You can integrate seamlessly with Orb in your Ruby projects using the orb-billing gem, available on RubyGems.org.

To get started, add this line to your Gemfile:

gem 'orb-billing', '~> 0.1.3'

Or install it directly with:

gem install orb-billing

Ruby now joins our growing SDK family alongside Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin, making it even easier to integrate Orb no matter your stack.

Do you have a language you’d like us to support next? Let us know - we’re all ears!

APIFeatureDeveloper Experience
8 months ago

Orb now supports dry running API requests

Orb's API now supports the dry running of requests. Dry running API requests allows you to validate the correctness of a request without making any actual changes to the system. This feature is particularly useful for ensuring that the request does not contain any errors and for previewing the potential response of a mutation before committing it.

Dry-running a request is as simple as including a “Dry-Run” header with a value of “True”, as shown below:

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.withorb.com/v1/subscriptions \
      --header 'Dry-Run: True' \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer null' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json'

More information can be found in our documentation.

APIDeveloper Experience
a year ago

Evaluate Price API Endpoint

The evaluate price API endpoint allows you to leverage multiple SQL expressions in order to dynamically query your data, just as you would use SQL expressions in constructing your metric. The set of filter and grouping expressions need not be configured up-front or known to Orb to pre-aggregate; instead, you’re able to perform these actions on-demand as they become necessary. Because SQL expressions are supported (as opposed to more basic support for event properties), you can use conditional statements and other logical operators.

This endpoint could be used to:

  • View usage for your compute metric broken down by cluster_name, where a user may have hundreds of clusters active in a given time period.
  • Build an interactive explorer in your application to view hourly data over a day time range, rather than the default daily views available through Orb’s subscription usage and cost APIs.
  • Provide a view into end customer usage by api_key prefix, allowing users to understand the source of API requests.

Learn more about this endpoint in the Orb docs. Happy query-ing! 

APIFeatureDeveloper Experience
a year ago

Now available: Orb SDKs!

Starting today, SDKs for Orb are available in Python (orb-billing on PyPI), Node.js/Typescript (orb-billing on NPM), and Go (github.com/orbcorp/orb-go). We’re pretty excited about the ergonomic wins these SDKs bring when it comes to integrating with Orb. They offer a wide range of benefits including autocomplete, static checking, retries, idempotency support, and more!

Additionally, if an Orb SDK isn’t available in your language of choice, our OpenAPI spec can help you get up and running with one quickly!