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 webhook and event providers and your systems.
It handles the complexity of ingesting, queuing, transforming, and delivering asynchronous messages.
Everything your webhooks need
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 and control delivery
Bulk pause, cancel, or replay events with API access to persistent event history.
Built for resilience, scale, and control
CHALLENGES
EVENT GATEWAY SOLUTIONS
- Lost or failed webhooks
- Traffic spikes or overload
- Complex routing and transformations
- Debugging and monitoring
- Guaranteed event delivery, smart retries, and DLQ
- Queueing, rate limiting, and backpressure handling
- Modify, filter, and route events dynamically
- Real-time event tracing, replay, and observability
Works the way you build
Integrates with any stack
Use Hookdeck with any framework, runtime, or service with no opinionated setup or SDKs required.
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Compatible with REST, GraphQL, and event-driven backends
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Supports serverless, containers, and monoliths
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No vendor lock-in or proxying required
Declarative event infrastructure
Define Hookdeck configs as code using the API or Terraform for automation and easy integration.
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Provision and manage Hookdeck with infrastructure as code
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Version and reuse configurations across environments
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Integrate with CI/CD for event-driven testing and rollout
Designed to scale
Ensure smooth delivery during peak usage with built-in resilience controls that absorb traffic spikes.
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Handle traffic spikes and surges without downtime
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Built-in throughput and backpressure management
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Queue overflow protection ensures no event is lost
Monitor and debug event flows in real time
Gain full visibility into every event flow with real-time tracing, issue replay, and complete delivery metrics.
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Trace and replay every event with a persistent log
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Smart issue management and alerting
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Exportable metrics for complete visibility
“Hookdeck acts as a shield to protect our infrastructure from massive demand.”
Trusted for production workflows
Event Gateway powers the backbone of modern event-driven systems, replacing queues, ingestion layers, and custom tooling with one reliable, observable delivery layer.
Infrastructure
you can rely on
“I trust my critical webhooks with the Hookdeck team... we haven't missed one for over a year.”
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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.