outpost

---
name: "outpost"
description: "Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted."
license: "MIT"
---

# Hookdeck Outpost

Outpost is open-source infrastructure for delivering events to user-preferred destinations: Webhooks (HTTP), SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka, and more. Apache 2.0 licensed, available as managed by Hookdeck or self-hosted.

## When to Use Outpost

- You're building a SaaS or API platform and need to send webhooks to your users
- You need multi-destination support beyond HTTP webhooks (SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, EventBridge, Kafka)
- You want self-hostable webhook delivery infrastructure
- You need multi-tenant support with per-user observability
- You want to offer your customers reliable, retryable event delivery

## Quick Start

### Managed (Hookdeck)

The fastest way to get started — Hookdeck hosts and operates Outpost for you:

1. Sign up at [hookdeck.com](https://hookdeck.com)
2. See the [Send Webhooks quickstart](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks/quickstart)

### Self-Hosted

Run Outpost on your own infrastructure:

1. See the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs)
2. Clone from [GitHub](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost)

## Supported Destinations

| Destination | Protocol |
|-------------|----------|
| Webhooks | HTTP/HTTPS |
| Amazon SQS | AWS SQS |
| RabbitMQ | AMQP |
| Google Pub/Sub | gRPC |
| Amazon EventBridge | AWS EventBridge |
| Apache Kafka | Kafka protocol |

## Full Product Skills

For detailed Outpost skills:

```bash
npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills --skill outpost
```

See [hookdeck/agent-skills](https://github.com/hookdeck/agent-skills) for the complete Outpost skill, the [Outpost documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs), and the [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost).

## Resources

- [Outpost Documentation](https://outpost.hookdeck.com/docs)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/hookdeck/outpost)
- [Hookdeck Send Webhooks Guide](https://hookdeck.com/docs/use-cases/send-webhooks)

## Related Skills

- [hookdeck-event-gateway](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway) - For receiving and ingesting webhooks (the inbound counterpart)
- [hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/hookdeck-event-gateway-webhooks) - Verify Hookdeck signatures on forwarded webhooks
- [webhook-handler-patterns](https://github.com/hookdeck/webhook-skills/tree/main/skills/webhook-handler-patterns) - Handler sequence, idempotency, error handling, retry logic