Gareth Wilson
Outpost GA, Better Stack integration, Operator Events - Hookdeck April 2026
After a year of iteration, Hookdeck Outpost reached v1.0 and launched as a managed service. We also shipped Better Stack integration, Outpost operator events, tightened CLI authentication for MCP workflows, and added new webhook source types from user requests. Let's take a closer look at what shipped in April.
Hookdeck Outpost GA and Outpost v1.0
Hookdeck Outpost is now generally available. Outpost adds webhook and event delivery to your API, SaaS, or PaaS. Where Event Gateway handles receiving and routing inbound events, Outpost handles delivery outward — to webhooks, but also brokers and queues like SQS, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub, Azure Service Bus, Kafka, and more. You publish via API or point Outpost at a queue and let it consume directly. At-least-once delivery and automatic retries are built in.
Explore the Outpost managed service or the self-hosted repo.
Better Stack Uptime Integration
Webhook issues in Event Gateway now open incidents in Better Stack with our new integration for Uptime. Like our Slack, Discord, and PagerDuty integrations, it keeps your team informed about events issues without leaving your incident management workflow.
You can get notifications for:
- New Issuess: Get notified instantly when new event issues arise.
- Issue Updates: Track when issues are being acked or ignored.
- Resolution Notifications: Know immediately when issues are resolved.
- Incident Management: Incidents are automatically created and updated in Better Stack Uptime.
Stay on top of event health, set up Better Stack Uptime integration from the dashboard.
Outpost Operator Events
Rolled into the v1.0 release you may have missed the addition of Operator Events to Outpost. They give you a structured way to subscribe to deployment lifecycle signals from their Outpost instance.
You can subscribe to specific topics or use * to receive all events, including:
alert.destination.consecutive_failure— a destination is experiencing repeated delivery failuresalert.destination.disabled— Outpost has auto-disabled a destination after too many failuresalert.attempt.exhausted_retries— a delivery attempt has used up its retry budgettenant.subscription.updated— a tenant's subscription state has changed
See the full v1.0.0 release note
Nine New Source Types
Nine new integrations shipped, expanding Hookdeck Event Gateway's verified source coverage to include Ashby, Neon, Paystack, Paymob, Scrapfly, FireFlies, WeChat Pay, Alchemy, and GreenDot.
Every source type added in April came directly from a user request. Browse all supported source types in the Hookdeck docs.
Hookdeck CLI v2.1.1
v2.1.1 focused on making the gateway MCP server auth-aware. We now route MCP execution path output to stderr, keeping stdout clean. The release also fixed API key validation — keys are now validated without sending stale team/project headers, and the local profile stays aligned with the API response after login.
The Recovery Surge
On April 28, Shopify experienced a webhook delivery latency incident. While the outage was problematic, it's often the recovery surge that causes bigger problems for downstream consumers.
This article covers the structural reasons recovery surges are harder to handle than outages, with advice on how to ready your systems for the aftermath.
Read "The Recovery Surge: A webhook failure mode worth planning for".