# hookdeck/outpost

Open Source Outbound Webhooks and Event Destinations Infrastructure

Repository: https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/outpost
Homepage: https://hookdeck.com/outpost
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: eventstream, webhooks, webhooksender, eventdestinations, amazon-eventbridge, aws-sqs, gcp-pubsub, hookdeck, rabbitmq, redis
Last push: 2026-08-19T17:58:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 85, longevity 53
- inputs: {"age_days": 742, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 102}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1052, forks 59 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:23.254794+00:00)

## What it is
Outpost is open-source outbound webhook and event delivery infrastructure that lets SaaS platforms reliably send events to their customers' destinations (webhooks, AWS SQS/S3/EventBridge/Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka). Written in Go and self-hostable via binary or Docker, it provides at-least-once delivery, retries, multi-tenancy, topic-based subscriptions, observability, and a self-service tenant portal.

## Use cases
- send outbound webhooks from my SaaS platform
- deliver events to customer-managed destinations like SQS or Kafka
- self-host webhook delivery infrastructure with retries
- give my customers a portal to manage their webhook endpoints
- fan out platform events to multiple tenants and topics
- replace building in-house webhook delivery with retries and observability
- publish events to customer queues like RabbitMQ or GCP Pub/Sub

## When to choose
- you operate a multi-tenant SaaS/API platform that must deliver events to customers' own systems
- you need at-least-once delivery, automatic/manual retries, and delivery observability out of the box
- you want to support diverse destination types (webhooks, queues, event buses) without building each integration
- you want a self-hostable, dependency-light (Redis, PostgreSQL, a message queue) alternative to a managed webhook service

## When to avoid
- you only need to receive/consume inbound webhooks rather than send them
- you need per-tenant delivery rate limiting or event transformation, which Outpost deliberately omits
- you want a fully managed solution and prefer not to run Redis, PostgreSQL, and a message queue yourself
- your event volume is trivial and a simple HTTP call with a basic retry loop suffices

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: webhook, message-queue, api-framework, monitoring, alerting
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: go, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: outbound-webhooks, event-destinations, event-delivery, multi-tenant, retries, tenant-portal, eventbridge, sqs, pubsub, kafka, rabbitmq, saas-infrastructure, messaging, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- hookdeck/outpost (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.254794+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:59:43.672684+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.254794+00:00, sha 5eddf9885d15)
  - homepage: https://hookdeck.com/outpost (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.346458+00:00, sha d0d8bacfd82a)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/outpost/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.415555+00:00, sha fe5ac64debc7)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/guides/how-to-filter-and-route-events (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.398231+00:00, sha 7110eed8d933)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/guides/control-throughput-queue-events (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.408605+00:00, sha a5831416123b)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/guides/how-to-gain-full-observability-of-your-event-flows (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.411458+00:00, sha 0b981352280e)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/guides/how-to-pause-connections (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.413742+00:00, sha 99c87256044a)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/outpost/features/multi-tenancy (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.417673+00:00, sha 643c967a4089)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/outpost/features/topics (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.420208+00:00, sha 4fd3faa58098)
  - site_page: https://hookdeck.com/docs/outpost/features/tenant-user-portal (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:12.422643+00:00, sha 3335ec2a3d8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.