how to get user events like create issue: Jira Cloud

[Ankush mahajan]

I am very new to Jira and I am looking to develop a Jira App which will log an event whenever a user creates a new issue in Jira. 

I want to do it for JIRA Cloud, I came across Webhooks but for that, I have to have a  URL at my end which will listen to the HTTP requests sent by Jira. Is there another way this can be done?

And if webhook is the only do you know any tool which can listen to these Requests so that I can see if it is working or not.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

You should use Webhooks in Jira Cloud.

[Joe Pitt]

What are you looking at doing that is different than the current create event that happens? 

[Ankush mahajan]

I am new to Jira app development,what i want to do is to create a Jira app which will log every time an issue is created in Jira (if I can log it somewhere in Jira itself so that I don't have to have a different machine to store it to, if I use webhooks I will have to have a diff machine), so I was looking a way to do it and saw Webhooks as a solution, but I want to know if there is something else available.

Can you please tell me what do you mean by "create event that happens"?