A scalable, observable gateway for managing webhooks and events
The Event Gateway provides scalable, resilient infrastructure to ingest, buffer, and deliver webhooks reliably, with full operational control and observability.
What is the
Event Gateway?
Hookdeck’s Event Gateway is a dedicated infrastructure layer that acts as a protective intermediary between external event providers and your systems.
It handles the complexity of ingesting, queuing, transforming, and delivering asynchronous messages.
Built for resilience, scale, and control
CHALLENGES
EVENT GATEWAY SOLUTIONS
Lost or failed webhooks
Guaranteed event delivery with smart retries and DLQ
Traffic spikes or overload
Queueing, rate limiting, and backpressure handling
Complex routing and transformations
Modify, filter, and route events dynamically
Debugging and monitoring
Real-time event tracing, replay, and observability
Platform capabilities
Ingest from any source
Receive webhooks and events from third-party providers, APIs, services, SDKs, etc.
Authenticate and verify requests
Validate incoming events with built-in signature verification and authentication.
Built for seamless scalability
Ingest thousands of events per second regardless of your service capacity.
Route and transform payloads
Use conditional logic to modify, filter, and route events to the right destinations.
Automatically retry failures
Resolve failed deliveries with customizable retry policies and exponential backoff.
Monitor, debug, and trace events
Inspect event flows in real time with detailed logs, alerts, and visual traces.
Queue and persist
Buffer events with configurable queues and durable storage to prevent data loss.
Protect downstream systems
Control throughput with pacing controls that absorb spikes and smooth traffic flow.
Replay, pause and control delivery
Pause or replay events in bulk with full API access to your persistent event history.
Trusted for critical workflows
Event Gateway powers the backbone of modern interopable event-driven systems, replacing queues, ingestion layers, and custom tooling with one reliable, observable event management layer.
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FAQs
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What’s an event gateway?
An event gateway is a service that manages, stores, routes, and queues events between internal and external event producers and consumers. It serves as the protective intermediary between external webhooks/event producers and your systems.
How does Hookdeck guarantee webhook delivery?
Hookdeck persists, queues, and tracks all events processed for each consumer (destination). Events that can't be delivered are clearly identified as such, and can be inspected and manually retried in bulk once your backend is back online. Failure can be managed via Issues, which track similar failure conditions.
What if my backend is down when I receive events?
Hookdeck retains all events in our event log. Retry rules can be configured to automatically retry failed event deliveries, and failed events can be inspected and manually retried in bulk once your backend is back online. Hookdeck ingestion infrastructure is highly available and scales to 100,000s of events per second.
How does the Event Gateway route my events?
Hookdeck's Event Gateway connects event sources to destinations. Each source can be connected to multiple destinations, and any event received on a source will be fanned-out to all connected destinations. Destination eligibility is determined by the connection configuration and filtering rules.