---
title: "Hookdeck Event Gateway - Reliable webhook infrastructure to handle inbound webhooks and events"
description: "A platform giving engineering teams webhook infrastructure and developer tooling to build, deploy, operate, and monitor event-driven applications."
product: event-gateway
---

# Handle inbound webhooks and events before they hit your app

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.

## Works the way you build

### Integrates with any stack

Use Hookdeck with any framework, runtime, or service with no opinionated setup or SDKs required.

### Declarative event infrastructure

Define Hookdeck configs as code using the API or Terraform for automation and easy integration.

### Designed to scale

Built for high-throughput ingestion and delivery with operational controls as volume grows.

## FAQs

### 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.

## Links

- [Documentation](/docs)
- [Event Gateway docs index](/docs/llms.txt)
- [Pricing](/pricing.md)
- [API reference](/docs/api.md)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://api.hookdeck.com/latest/openapi)