Data Flow

When you connect your user to Vital several processes are started - which very much depend on which provider your user connects to.

Firstly, Vital will try to fetch all the historical (data that exists on a user’s device prior to connecting to Vital) data for that user. This process can take several minutes so we send a Webhook event to you when that data is collected.

For all subsequent data, that being new data from a user’s device, the data flow will follow the daily or webhook process. For some provider’s, data is pushed to Vital via a webhook. Upon receipt of the webhook, Vital will process the data and send a Webhook event to you. This event will signify that the data is ready to be retrieved from our database. For other providers, Vital will pull data from the provider’s API on a schedule, multiple times a day. If new data is available, Vital will process it and send a Webhook event to you.

To get more details of which provider’s see the Provider’s Guide.

For some user’s they want near real-time data updates. We provider a refresh API endpoint that will allow you to request a refresh of the data for a user at any point in time.