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Hookdeck

Monitors your webhook health in real time, automates the retry of failed events, and manages your event routing and transformations via AI.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Hookdeck integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Hookdeck calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Hookdeck data, across all 105 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Hookdeck access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Hookdeck, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Hookdeck is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Hookdeck.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Hookdeck action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Hookdeck, and when to use it.

Bulk Retry Events
Use this when you need to initiate a bulk retry for a set of failed events matching specific filters.
Bulk Cancel Events
Use this when you need to cancel multiple events matching filters to stop further delivery attempts.
Create Connection
Use this to establish a routing link between a source and a destination.
Create Destination
Use this to define a new endpoint where events should be routed.
Create Source
Use this to set up a new entry point for receiving incoming webhooks.
Create Transformation
Use this to execute custom JavaScript to modify event payloads before they reach the destination.
Get Events
Pull delivery logs and filter by status or time to analyze event flow.
Get Attempts
Retrieve specific delivery attempts for an event to debug failure reasons.
List Issues
Pull all detected issues in the account filtered by type or status.
Manually Retry Event
Force a manual retry of a single failed event delivery.
Resolve Issue
Mark a detected Hookdeck issue as resolved after a fix is deployed.
Update Connection
Modify the name, description, or routing rules of an existing connection.
Bulk Cancel Hookdeck Events
Tool to create a bulk cancellation job for events. Use when you need to cancel multiple events matching filters.
Bulk Retry Hookdeck Events
Tool to initiate a bulk retry for a set of events. Use when you need to retry multiple failed events matching filters.
Cancel Hookdeck Event
Tool to cancel all future delivery attempts for a specific event. Use when you need to stop retries of an event before manual intervention.
Cancel Hookdeck Scheduled Retries
Tool to cancel all future scheduled retries for an event. Use when you need to mute automatic retry attempts after repeated failures.
Create Hookdeck Bookmark
Tool to create a new bookmark. Use when you want to bookmark a specific event for quick access.
Create Hookdeck Connection
Tool to create a connection between a source and a destination. Use after setting up or referencing source/destination.
Create Hookdeck Destination
Tool to create a new Hookdeck destination. Use after setting up sources when you need to route events to endpoints.
Create Hookdeck Source
Tool to create a new Hookdeck source. Use after setting up your project when you need to receive and route incoming webhooks.
Create Hookdeck Transformation
Tool to create a new Hookdeck transformation. Use when you need to execute custom JavaScript to modify event payloads before delivery.
Delete Hookdeck Bookmark
Tool to delete a specific bookmark by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a bookmark after confirming it's no longer needed.
Delete Hookdeck Connection
Tool to delete a specific connection by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a connection after confirming it's no longer needed.
Delete Hookdeck Destination
Tool to delete a specific destination by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a destination after confirming it's no longer needed.
Delete Hookdeck Source
Tool to delete a specific source by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a source after confirming it's no longer needed.
Delete Hookdeck Transformation
Tool to delete a specific transformation by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a transformation after confirming it's no longer needed.
Get Hookdeck Attempt
Tool to retrieve details of a specific Hookdeck attempt by its ID. Use after confirming the attempt ID.
Get Hookdeck Connection
Tool to retrieve details of a specific Hookdeck connection. Use after confirming the connection ID.
Hookdeck: Get Connections
Tool to list Hookdeck connections. Use when you need to retrieve or filter your configured connections.
Get Hookdeck Destination
Tool to retrieve details of a specific Hookdeck destination. Use after confirming the destination ID.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven implements an intelligent queuing system that respects the rate limits imposed by the Hookdeck API. Because high volume event environments can generate thousands of requests, the agent monitors the headers returned by Hookdeck for rate limit status. If the agent hits a limit, it automatically pauses outgoing requests and implements an exponential backoff strategy. This ensures that your automation does not accidentally trigger a lockout during a critical recovery phase. For users on higher tiers with increased limits, Ceven adjusts its concurrency settings to maximize throughput while remaining within the safety margins defined by your specific Hookdeck plan.
Yes. The agent can read the current transformation code, propose modifications based on your requirements, and then push the updated JavaScript back to Hookdeck. This is particularly useful when you need to add a new field to a payload or filter out specific events based on changing business logic. The agent treats the transformation as code, meaning it can help you debug syntax errors or optimize the logic before deploying it. Always review the proposed code changes in the workflow logs before the agent executes the update to ensure the transformation behaves exactly as expected.
The agent uses the Get Events and List Issues actions to analyze the current state of your delivery pipeline. You can define specific criteria such as a date range, a specific destination ID, or a range of HTTP response codes like 502 or 504. Once the agent identifies the cohort of events that match these filters, it collects the necessary identifiers and passes them to the Bulk Retry tool. This process removes the need for you to manually export CSVs of failed events and reupload them, turning a manual recovery process into a single natural language command.
Absolutely. The agent can coordinate the creation of a source, a destination, and the connection that links them together. For example, if you are onboarding a new third party partner, you can tell Ceven to set up a new Hookdeck pipeline for that partner. The agent will create the source to receive their webhooks, create the destination pointing to your internal endpoint, and establish the connection rules. This ensures that your routing architecture remains consistent and documented without requiring a developer to manually click through the Hookdeck dashboard for every new integration.
Ceven monitors the results of any bulk action it initiates. After triggering a bulk retry, the agent can be configured to poll the Get Attempts endpoint to verify the success rate. If the events continue to fail, the agent will stop further attempts to prevent a retry loop that could overwhelm your destination server. It will then create a report detailing the failure patterns and can even alert your team via Slack or email. This closed loop system ensures that automation does not make a bad situation worse by hammering a crashing server with repeated requests.
Ceven can access the payloads through the Get Request and Get Event actions provided by the Hookdeck API. This access is necessary for the agent to perform tasks like analyzing error patterns or drafting transformation logic. All data handled by the agent is encrypted in transit and at rest. You can control the scope of this access by managing the API permissions associated with your Hookdeck account. If you have sensitive data, we recommend using Hookdeck transformations to mask PII before the event is stored, which ensures the agent only sees the data necessary for routing and monitoring.
Ceven is limited by the capabilities of the Hookdeck API. For instance, certain account level billing settings or user permission changes cannot be managed via API and must be done manually in the Hookdeck dashboard. Additionally, very large bulk operations may be subject to the asynchronous processing nature of the Hookdeck backend, meaning the agent might report a job as started rather than finished immediately. You will see a pending status in the workflow until Hookdeck confirms the bulk operation has completed across all targeted events.
Yes. Use the Send Hookdeck Source Request action to ingest test payloads into your source. The agent can generate a variety of test payloads based on your API documentation and send them through the pipeline. It then monitors the delivery attempts and the final response from your destination to verify that the routing and transformations are working correctly. This allows you to build a full end to end test suite where the agent acts as the event generator and the validator, ensuring your production environment is stable before you point real traffic to it.

Alternatives to Hookdeck

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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