Gareth Wilson
Improved Search, MFA & Dashboad updates - Hookdeck February 2026
February brought huge improvements to search in Hookdeck's Event Gateway, as well as MFA, dashboard and alerting updates for Outpost, and updates to the CLI that add comprehensive Event Gateway management capabilities. Let's take a closer look at what's new in Hookdeck.
Improved Search: Unstructured Search Across Requests
Event Gateway's search capabilities got a major upgrade. Hookdeck co-founder, Alex, said:
“This might be one of the most powerful things we've ever done.”
We replaced the previous filter-based system with fast, unstructured search. Now you can enter any value from your request payloads, headers, or metadata into the search bar and get instant results showing every request containing that value.
This is a game-changer for debugging webhook issues and tracing specific events through your infrastructure. The old system required complex JSON filter syntax and could be slow on large datasets. The new search accepts plain text values (like user IDs, email addresses, or any payload content) and returns near-instant results regardless of project scale.
Under the hood, it's searching across hundreds of millions of events. We've been thinking about how to solve this problem well for years. We're excited for you to give it a shot.
Try the new search in your Event Gateway dashboard
Hookdeck Got MFA
Organizations can now enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all team members in Event Gateway, adding a crucial security layer for webhook infrastructure management.
Admins can turn on MFA from Organization Settings → General → Security. When enabled, team members without MFA configured are blocked from the dashboard until they set up authentication. The interface shows which members have MFA enabled, making it easy to identify who needs to complete setup.
Individual users can add authenticator apps (like Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password) from their account security settings, including backup code generation for device loss scenarios.
Both organization-level enforcement and user-level authenticator setup are available across all Hookdeck plans.
Configure MFA in your organization settings
CLI v1.9.1: Event Gateway Management & Analytics
Hookdeck CLI gained comprehensive Event Gateway management capabilities in v1.9.1. The new hookdeck gateway command group provides complete CRUD operations for all Event Gateway resources, so you can:
- Manage connections with full lifecycle control e.g.
hookdeck gateway connection create --name "stripe-to-backend" - Handle sources and destinations e.g.
hookdeck gateway source create --name "github-webhooks" --type GITHUB - Work with transformations e.g.
hookdeck gateway transformation create --name "normalize-payload" - Set up routing rules e.g.
hookdeck gateway route create --name "route-to-backend" --source "github-webhooks" --destination "stripe-to-backend"
The CLI also introduced seven new metrics commands for deep Event Gateway analytics, following the release of the Metrics API last month. These metrics commands accept flexible filtering by source, destination, connection, status, and time granularity, enabling precise monitoring of webhook infrastructure performance.
Explore the new CLI capabilities with hookdeck gateway --help
Outpost v0.13.0: Dashboard and Alerting Updates
Outpost v0.13.0 included large updates to the Early Access dashboard. You can now also view/create/update/delete destinations and configure and view alerts for failing destinations.
The release includes substantial API refactoring: unified base62 cursor pagination, refined response schemas with new models/pagination envelopes, and the concept of "delivery" renamed to "attempt" for clearer terminology.
There are breaking changes, though, so follow the migration guide before upgrading to ensure a smooth transition.
Review what's new and the migration guide before upgrading
🆕 Agent Skills
To complement our existing vendor-specific webhook skills, we've added a new set of Agent Skills, which equip your AI coding agent with webhook and event-driven architecture expertise.
Receive, queue, route, and deliver webhooks with Hookdeck Event Gateway, test webhooks locally with the Hookdeck CLI, and build outbound webhook delivery with Outpost.
Install Agent Skills: npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills
New Event Gateway Sources
We added six new source types to Event Gateway in Feb, expanding our webhook verification capabilities to include: Circle, Coinbase, FusionAuth, Recurly, Asana, and Portal.
Explore all available source types in the dashboard
Resources: LLM Analytics, Linear Agents, OpenClaw and more
LLM Analytics: We wrote about building analytics for AI agents using Vercel Log Drains, Hookdeck, and PostHog to track requests to machine-readable documentation. The solution captures
.mdandllms.txtrequests invisible to traditional client-side analytics, providing visibility into which AI agents access documentation and their usage patterns.OpenClaw: There's a new OpenClaw integration guide, which tackles webhook reliability challenges for the agent platform, showing how to add persistent queuing, automatic retries, and observability to OpenClaw's webhook system using Hookdeck's Event Gateway.
Linear Agents: For Linear users, I documented how to build Linear agents, and how you can run Claude Code as a Linear Agent using Cyrus and Hookdeck CLI.
Interactive Filter docs: We updated our Filter docs, adding the ability to try out filters directly within the docs page itself.
Webhook Skills updates: We added new skills to webhook-skills, extending vendor support to include Cursor, Webflow, WooCommerce, SendGrid, GitLab, and others.
What would you use a Hookdeck MCP for?
The Hookdeck CLI will soon host an MCP server, giving your coding agent direct access to the full CLI toolchain. We'd love to get your input on how a Hookdeck MCP might fit into your workflow.
Please hop into Slack to share your thoughts, and help us shape the future of Hookdeck's MCP offering.