​Outpost Features

Outpost offers a range of features designed to provide a robust and flexible event delivery system. Explore the details of each feature below:

  • Multi-Tenant Support: The Outpost API supports creating multiple tenants on a single Outpost deployment.

  • Event Destinations: Outpost supports a variety of event destination types, including Webhooks, Hookdeck Event Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.

  • Topics: Outpost supports event topics (also known as "event types") in order to segment, filter, and route events to appropriate destinations.

  • Publishing Events: Learn how events are published, either to a configured message queue or via the publish API endpoint.

  • Delivery & Retries: Understand how Outpost ensures reliable event delivery with support for various destination types, retries, and best practices.

  • Alerts: Configure alerts and auto-disable destinations for event delivery failures based on consecutive failures.

  • Tenant User Portal: Provide your tenants with an optional portal to configure destinations and inspect events.

  • OpenTelemetry: Monitor key performance metrics using OpenTelemetry integration.

  • Logging: Control the verbosity of logs produced by Outpost services.

  • Event topics and topic-based subscriptions: Supports the common publish and subscription paradigm to ease adoption and integration into existing systems.

  • Publish events via the API or a queue: Publish events using the Outpost API or configure Outpost to read events from a publish queue.

  • At least once delivery guarantee: Messages are guaranteed to be delivered at least once and never lost.

  • Event fanout: A message is sent to a topic is replicated and sent to multiple endpoints. This allows for parallel processing and asynchronous event notifications.

  • User portal: Allow customers to view metrics, manage, debug, and observe their event destinations.

  • Automatic and manual retries: Configure retry strategies for event destinations and manually trigger event delivery retries via the API or user portal.

  • Multi-tenant support: Create multiple tenants on a single Outpost deployment.

  • Delivery failure alerts: Manage event delivery failure alerts.

  • OpenTelemetry: OTel standardized traces, metrics, and logs.

  • Event destination types: Out of the box support for Webhooks, Hookdeck Event Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS SQS, AWS SNS. GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.

  • Webhook best practices: Opt-out webhook best practices, such as headers for idempotency, timestamp and signature, and signature rotation.

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