What is Hookdeck Outpost used for?

It is used to deliver outbound events to customer destinations such as webhooks, queues, and event buses.

Is Hookdeck Outpost open source?

Yes. Hookdeck states that the self hosted version is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Does Hookdeck Outpost support retries?

Yes. The product page highlights both automatic retries and manual retries through the API or user portal.

Hookdeck Outpost: Features, Pricing & FAQ

Hookdeck Outpost is outbound webhook and event delivery infrastructure for webhooks, queues, and event buses with managed and self hosted open source deployment options.

About Hookdeck Outpost

Hookdeck Outpost is outbound event delivery infrastructure for sending events to customer preferred destinations. Hookdeck positions it as a simpler way to deliver webhooks and event traffic to webhooks, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and related targets.

The product is available as a managed service in early access and as a self hosted open source deployment under Apache 2.0. Hookdeck emphasizes reliable delivery, at least once guarantees, topic based subscriptions, retries, and API or queue based publishing.

Key Features

Multiple Destinations: Sends events to webhooks, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more.
Delivery Guarantees: Provides at least once delivery guarantees.
Retry Controls: Supports automatic retries and manual retries through API or portal.
Topic Subscriptions: Enables publish and subscribe patterns for event delivery.
Flexible Publishing: Supports publishing by API or from a publish queue.
Managed or Self Hosted: Available as managed infrastructure or self hosted open source software.

Pricing

Self hosted: Open source under Apache 2.0. No self hosted price is listed on the product page.
Managed service: Available in early access by request. Public pricing is not listed on the product page.

Pricing last updated: April 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM

Use Cases

Sending product events to customer webhooks
Delivering outbound events to cloud queues and buses
Replacing custom webhook delivery infrastructure
Supporting topic based event subscription models

Pros & Cons

Pros:

Supports several webhook and event destination types
Offers both managed and self hosted options
Built around reliability features like retries and delivery guarantees

Cons:

Managed service is still early access
Public managed pricing is not listed

Integrations

Webhooks, Hookdeck Event Gateway, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka

FAQ

Last edited

April 25, 2026 at 9:20 AM by Venkatraman C

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