Outbound webhook delivery
“We should offer webhooks.”
It sounds like one endpoint. It is this list — and the half of it nobody remembers until a customer asks why an event from last Tuesday never arrived.
- HMAC signing, with a scheme receivers already know
- A timestamp and delivery id inside the signature, or it replays
- Exponential retries that survive a receiver being down all day
- Jitter, or every queued delivery stampedes them on recovery
- Knowing which failures are worth retrying and which are not
- Secret rotation with an overlap, because nobody can switch in one instant
- An append-only log of every attempt and response
- A way for your customers to see that log without emailing you
HookPulse is all of it, behind one POST.
No card. 2,000 deliveries on the trial.
One request in. We own everything after it.
Your handler returns immediately — a webhook should never put somebody else’s slow server inside your own request. From there it is our problem: signed, delivered, retried, and written down.
See the verification snippetawait fetch('https://hookpulse.2.28.42.222.sslip.io/api/v1/apps/APP_ID/events', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer hp_…' },
body: JSON.stringify({
type: 'invoice.paid',
payload: { id: 'in_123', amount: 4900 },
dedupeKey: 'invoice-123-paid',
}),
})The retry schedule, stated rather than implied.
Six attempts, stretching over more than seven hours, each jittered so a receiver coming back up is not hit by everything at once. Then we stop and tell you — a delivery that has failed all day needs a person, not another request.
- immediately
- +15sattempt 2
- +2mattempt 3
- +15mattempt 4
- +1hattempt 5
- +6hattempt 6
Priced by delivery.
An event fanned out to five endpoints is five deliveries, because that is five requests we made and five sets of retries we are responsible for. Retries of the same delivery are not counted again.
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