Hookdeck Webhook Management API
Manages inbound webhooks from third-party services with reliable queuing, filtering, transformation, fan-out routing, and automatic retry on delivery failures.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Per-source signing secrets enable inbound signature verification. Secrets are not exposed after initial creation. TLS enforced on all endpoints.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You need a reliable inbound webhook gateway that decouples third-party event producers from your agent consumers with filtering, transformation, and replay capabilities.
Avoid When
Your primary need is sending webhooks outbound to customers rather than receiving them from external services.
Use Cases
- • Receive webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, or other SaaS tools and route them to agent pipelines without missing events during downtime
- • Filter and transform webhook payloads before they reach an agent so the agent only processes relevant, normalized events
- • Fan-out a single inbound webhook event to multiple downstream agent workers or endpoints simultaneously
- • Replay failed or missed webhook deliveries to an agent endpoint after a bug fix or deployment
- • Inspect and debug full webhook request/response history to diagnose why an agent pipeline processed an event incorrectly
Not For
- • Sending outbound webhooks to your own customers' endpoints (use Svix instead)
- • Real-time sub-100ms pub/sub messaging between services (use Ably or Pusher)
- • General-purpose task queues or job scheduling (use a dedicated queue like SQS or BullMQ)
Interface
Authentication
API key passed as Bearer token. Inbound webhook sources use auto-generated signing secrets per source for verification. Team-level and project-level key scoping available.
Pricing
Free tier sufficient for development. Retention period and event volume are the main upgrade drivers for production workloads.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Connections (source + destination pairs) must be pre-configured; agents cannot dynamically create routing on the fly without an API call to create the connection first
- ⚠ Transformation functions are JavaScript snippets executed server-side; agents calling the API to deploy transformations must validate JS syntax before submission
- ⚠ Event retention limits mean older events cannot be replayed on free/lower tiers — agents that need audit replay should check plan limits
- ⚠ Fan-out to multiple destinations requires separate connection objects per destination, not a single multi-target configuration
- ⚠ Rate limiting on the management API is separate from the ingest rate; agents that programmatically create many connections may hit management API limits
Alternatives
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.