Convoy vs Internal implementation
Discover why choosing Convoy over building an internal webhook service saves time, reduces complexity, and ensures reliability at scale.
A more feature-rich gateway
Enhance your webhook reliability, security, and performance with advanced endpoint controls tailored to ensure stable, secure, and efficient message delivery.
Retries
Automatically retry failed webhooks to ensure eventual delivery and handle temporary network issues.
Rate Limiting
Control event flow to client endpoints, preventing overload and ensuring smooth operations during traffic spikes.
Endpoint Circuit Breaking
Detect and isolate malfunctioning endpoints to prevent backpressure and maintain system stability.
Multiple URLs
Enable developers to configure multiple webhook URLs for greater flexibility,
Fine-grained webhook subscriptions
Filter webhook events based on payload details for precise and efficient subscriptions.
Ease of debugging
Use a web UI for simple debugging, eliminating the need for complex server log analysis.
Developer Portal
A fully-suited developer portal to enable users to register endpoints, expire secrets, and debug their webhook events.
Failure Notifications
Automatically send developers failure notifications when their endpoints fail.
Static IPs
Deliver webhooks from consistent egress IPs, simplifying firewall configurations and ensuring stability.
Webhook Log
Maintain a log of webhook events for easy monitoring, debugging, and compliance checks.
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| Supported | Unsupported |
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| Supported | Questionable |
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| Supported | Questionable |
Don't just take our word for it
We considered building a webhooks system internally but quickly realised that reaching the quality and robustness our customers deserve would be highly time-consuming. Convoy offered this out-of-the-box.
Michael Raines
Principal Engineer at Spruce Health, Ex AWS
Highly Reliable Architecture
Built for resilience and speed, the system combines a control and data plane architecture, and PostgresSQL's robustness to ensure high availability, durability, and seamless data handling.
Language Choice
Microservices support
Message Broker support
Resilient & Reliable Architecture
Performance
Observability
Retention Policies
| Convoy | Your implementation |
|---|---|
| Built with Golang, the most popular language for cloud-native applications. | Often bundled in monolithic architectures using Ruby, Go, Java, or Python/Django. |
| Built to support multiple teams and microservices with a resilient webhook gateway. | Tightly coupled with monoliths, limiting scalability across teams and services. |
| Ingest events seamlessly from any message broker, including Kafka, Amazon SQS, Google PubSub, and RabbitMQ, for flexible event processing. | Limited or no support for message brokers. |
| Uses a control and data plane architecture for high throughput and availability. | Coupled system with many dependencies, reducing overall reliability. |
| Convoy delivers events in sub 1 sec latencies. You can read more about our benchmarks here. | Latencies probably aren't even measured. |
| Fully supports Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry for monitoring. | Limited visibility, making system diagnostics difficult. |
| Flexible retention policies to archive events to S3-compatible storage. | Most providers lack persistence and do not handle data purging efficiently. |
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