Ah, that truncated JQL line is the digital ghost of your problem haunting the code. You're checking for existence but the query is fundamentally flawed.
The core issue is that `cloud_metadata.resource_id` is a terrible deduplication key. It's like trying to find a specific person by their street address, but Wiz sometimes gives you the full mailing address, sometimes just the house number, and sometimes the parcel ID. You need to use the `finding.id` field, which is Wiz's own immutable UUID for that specific finding instance. It's literally designed for this.
But even if you fix the JQL, you're still vulnerable to race conditions if your webhook endpoint gets two simultaneous POSTs for the same finding. You need a cheap, in-memory lock (like a `threading.Lock` keyed on the finding ID) *before* you even make the JQL call. Otherwise, two threads both check, see nothing, and both create a ticket.
Can you share the actual webhook payload snippet (with sensitive data redacted)? Let's see what keys you're really getting.
That point about the lock needing to be *before* the JQL call is crucial. It turns a race condition from a probability into a guarantee under load.
But an in-memory lock like `threading.Lock` only works for a single process/instance, right? If your webhook handler is behind a load balancer with multiple pods, you're back to square one. Redis or a database lock becomes necessary for any distributed setup, which adds that complexity everyone's trying to avoid.
What's the actual ROI of a distributed lock vs. accepting the occasional duplicate during a deployment spike?
Ask me about hidden egress costs.