Gareth Wilson
Revamped dashboard, updated metrics, and Outpost improvements - Hookdeck June 2026
A revamped dashboard, metrics fixes, Outpost reliability improvements, and a new CLI beta with richer MCP filtering for AI agent workflows. Here's what shipped in June.
Dashboard updates: Two-Column Layout, Collapsible Sidenav & Date Picker
We've updated the dashboard design to reduce friction between spotting a problem and acting on it.
The most visible change is the two-column layout now applied across most pages. Where the previous layout prioritized whitespace, the new one fits more tables, metrics, and resource details into a single viewport. That means less clicking and scrolling for ops tasks, like comparing delivery state across sources or cross-referencing connection health and recent attempts.
The collapsible sidebar lets you collapse the nav entirely to reclaim more horizontal space for tables and charts.
The date picker now supports more precise time ranges, which matters most during incident investigations. Narrowing to a 20-minute window during a delivery spike used to require workarounds; now you can define the range exactly.
Lastly, the metrics and charts received readability and accuracy improvements across multiple views. Together, we hope these improvements will help you to scan, compare, and act on operational data faster.
Check out the updated dashboard
Oldest Pending & Pending Count metric fixes
Two queue health metrics that rely on sampling were fixed this month:
- Oldest pending now correctly reflects the actual oldest event waiting for delivery. Before the fix, the value could be stale or inconsistent, unreliable for catching queues backing up behind a slow destination.
- Pending count now accurately reports the number of events queued at any given moment. Previous behavior produced inconsistent readings depending on timing, making it hard to distinguish a healthy queue from one that's full but not showing it.
These fixes make queue health more trustworthy, especially for investigating delivery delays and backpressure.
Outpost v1.0.5 & v1.0.6
Two Outpost releases shipped in June, both focused on closing edge cases that could have produced reliability issues.
- Webhook secret rotation: Every rotation now correctly resets the 24-hour window. If you rotate secrets under live traffic, this fix prevents a class of silent verification failures that were difficult to trace.
- Duplicate log message handling is now idempotent. At-least-once delivery means duplicates in the same batch previously caused two problems: the whole batch failed, and alert evaluation ran once per duplicate copy. Both are fixed; duplicates in the same batch are now handled without side effects.
- Per-event format errors previously disappeared silently. From v1.0.5, these are recorded as normal failed deliveries: they retry, they surface to the customer, and they stop generating noise.
v1.0.6 adds more flexible alert dimension configuration. ALERT_CONSECUTIVE_FAILURE_COUNT and ALERT_EXHAUSTED_RETRIES_WINDOW_SECONDS now support three states via a single config key: leave it unset for the built-in default, set an empty string to disable the alert dimension entirely, or set a value to override the threshold. So you no longer need a workaround to tune or suppress specific alert conditions.
Review the full changelogs for v1.0.5 and v1.0.6
CLI v2.2.0 & v2.3.0-beta.1
In CLI v2.2.0 shell completion now writes to standard output. This is a breaking change, although users installing via Homebrew or Scoop are unaffected. Otherwise, run hookdeck completion --help for full guidance.
The beta release of v2.3.0 expands filtering on hookdeck_events and hookdeck_requests in the MCP interface, bringing it closer to parity with what's available through the API.
Previously, listing events or requests via MCP tools exposed only a subset of filter options. With v2.3.0-beta.1 you can filter on payload searches, including date windows, events and requests. If you use agents to check whether a specific event was delivered, find retries within a time window, or filter requests by payload content, then these filter upgrades will help make that workflow easier.
To try the beta:
npm install hookdeck-cli@beta -g
# or: brew install hookdeck/hookdeck/hookdeck-beta
CLI v2.3.0-beta.1 release notes
New Sources
We added two new sources to Hookdeck Event Gateway, both adding first-class signature verification for ShipStation & ElevenLabs.
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