Convoy is an open-source webhooks gateway that enables the secure and efficient sending and receiving of webhook events across various platforms and programming languages. It addresses the challenges of webhook management by providing features like payload signing, rate limiting, and event debugging, allowing developers to focus on their core applications without the overhead of building their own infrastructure.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Managing webhooks across different platforms and programming languages can be complex, requiring developers to build and maintain their own infrastructure for secure and reliable delivery. This involves handling payload signing, rate limiting, and debugging, which can divert resources from core application development.
Solution
Convoy offers an open-source webhooks gateway designed to streamline the sending and receiving of webhook events. It provides features such as payload signing to ensure secure delivery, rate limiting to prevent overwhelming endpoints, and event debugging tools to facilitate troubleshooting. By using Convoy, developers can offload the complexities of webhook management to a dedicated solution, allowing them to focus on building their applications. The platform supports both publishing and receiving millions of webhook events from any provider, benefiting both API providers and API consumers.
Target Audience
Convoy is designed for API providers and consumers, Web3 product teams, and enterprises that require a reliable and scalable solution for managing webhooks.
Features
- Payload signing and verification to secure webhook events
- Rate limiting controls to manage event delivery to endpoints
- Delivery attempt logs for filtering and debugging events
- Support for sending events from any language with SDKs available for Ruby, Golang, and JavaScript
- Horizontally scalable components (API server, dispatch workers, egress gateway)
- Enterprise edition with on-prem support for sending billions of webhooks while maintaining data control and compliance
- Cloud-based Webhooks-as-a-service platform with team management, debug logs, and metrics
- Community edition for managing incoming and outgoing webhooks with rate limiting, retries, and static IPs