Your first delivery

Account, destination, publish, and the timeline that proves it arrived.

In short

Open an account, add a destination, publish one event.
The destination secret is shown once — store it before you close the panel.
The delivery timeline shows the status, the latency and what the destination answered.

1. Add a destination

A destination is a URL that receives deliveries. On a live project it must be HTTPS; private and cloud-metadata addresses are refused. You can restrict it to certain event types or leave it open to everything.

curl -X POST https://api.hookget.com/v1/endpoints \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $HOOKGET_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://orders.example.com/webhooks","event_types":["order.created"]}'

# {"id":"ep_…","secret":"whsec_…"}   ← the secret appears exactly once

2. Publish an event

curl -X POST https://api.hookget.com/v1/events \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $HOOKGET_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"order.created","payload":{"id":"ord_10241","total":149.9}}'

# 202 — stored, then fanned out to every subscribed endpoint

The 202 arrives only after the event is durable. That ordering is the whole reliability story: an acknowledgement that precedes the write is a promise the service cannot keep.

3. Watch it arrive

msg_01J8ZQ3F9VBAQ4E1S0TZY6P8YV order.created · 2 units

#	Time	Status	Code	Latency	Why
1	09:41:02	failed	503	1,204 ms	Service Unavailable
2	09:41:07	failed	503	980 ms	retried after 5s
3	09:41:37	failed	timeout	15,000 ms	retried after 30s
4	09:46:37	delivered	200	142 ms	retried after 5m

Same webhook-id on every attempt, so the consumer can deduplicate.

Every attempt against one destination: what was sent, what came back, how long it took, and how long we waited before trying again. This is the answer to “did you send it?” without a database query.

Each attempt is recorded with its status, latency and the first kilobyte of the response.

curl https://api.hookget.com/v1/events/msg_01M0…/attempts \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $HOOKGET_KEY"

Field	What it tells you
`status`	delivered, failed, or still pending
`http_status`	What the destination answered, when it answered at all
`response_ms`	How long it took — the number that becomes p95 on the health endpoint
`error_class`	Why there was no status: a timeout, a connection error, a refused address
`response_body_first_1kb`	The start of the body, which is usually where the reason is
`attempt_no`	Which attempt this was, so a retry is visible as a retry

On the consumer side, verify before you parse. The signature guide has the function in full.

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