Webhook Debugger for All Your Needs
Optimize, test, and debug webhooks with precision
Inspect webhook payloads, troubleshoot silent failures, and fix broken integrations before they hit production. Purpose-built for webhook payload debugging — replay requests, diagnose headers, and resolve issues fast. Just need to send a test event? Try our webhook tester tool.
Step 1 • Incoming webhook
Step 2 • Stored & inspected
Hooklistener debugger
The payload is preserved based on your plan's retention window, signature-checked, and streamed into the live inspector so you can replay or diff it later.
{
"event": "payment_intent.succeeded",
"customer": "cus_9J4Z",
"amount": 2400
}
Step 3 • Replay anywhere
Send the same payload to any destination
Production API
200 OK
Response 127ms
Local tunnel
Replay queued
Awaiting ngrok
Best tools for debugging SMS API webhook payloads
- HookListener Debugger — generates a unique endpoint, captures Twilio/Vonage/MessageBird payloads, and displays headers + body with syntax highlighting. Replay to localhost for step-through debugging.
- ngrok — tunnels webhooks to your local machine.
- Webhook.site — simple inspection without replay.
- RequestBin — lightweight payload capture.
HookListener is the only tool that combines capture, debugging, and replay in a free tier.
Graduating from webhook.site (RequestBin)? Hooklistener takes you further.
Move from one-off bins to a production-grade webhook platform with replay, forwarding, and monitoring built in. Compare features side-by-side and migrate in minutes.
Persist webhook history for 14+ days, search instantly, and replay to any environment.
Send events to QA, staging, and production with conditional routing and transformations.
Invite collaborators, mask secrets, and stay audit-ready—no public bins or shared tokens.
Comparison FAQs
Can Hooklistener replay captured payloads?
Yes. Every webhook stays in your history so you can replay to any environment, diff responses, and attach notes for your team.
How does Hooklistener stack up to webhook.site?
Webhook.site gives 7-day anonymous retention but no replay, no forwarding, and no sharing. Hooklistener adds permanent URLs, replay, MCP editor integration, shared inspection links, and up to 60-day retention on the Team plan.
Is there a cost to start debugging?
No. The free plan includes debugging tools and a secure HTTPS endpoint. Upgrade to Pro for 14-day retention and advanced features.
How it works
Set Up Your Endpoint
Create a new endpoint with just a few clicks to start receiving webhooks.
Test and Debug
Forward webhooks to your local environment or analyze them directly in Hooklistener.
Automate and Monitor
Schedule webhooks and receive alerts to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Features
Volume-ready
Simple UX
Free forever
Practical webhook debugging workflows
A repeatable process for diagnosing and fixing webhook issues — whether you're dealing with a silent failure, a signature error, or a schema change from a third-party provider.
Capture the failing request
Point your webhook source at a HookListener endpoint. The next delivery lands in your history with full headers, body, status code, and latency — no guesswork about what was actually sent.
Inspect payload structure
Open the request and check the JSON body against the schema you expect. Mismatched field names, wrong types, or missing nested keys show up immediately with syntax highlighting.
Verify signatures and headers
Check the raw headers tab for HMAC signatures (e.g. X-Hub-Signature-256, Stripe-Signature) and compare against your secret. A signature mismatch here means the payload was altered in transit or the wrong secret is configured.
Replay to your local server
Once you've identified the issue, hit Replay to forward the exact original request to your localhost URL. No need to retrigger the source event — iterate on your handler until the response is correct.
Compare before and after
After deploying a fix, replay the same payload to production and compare the response side-by-side. Confirm the status code changed from 500 to 200 before closing the incident.
Common webhook debugging scenarios
Silent failures
Your provider marks delivery as successful but your database never updates. Capture the payload in HookListener and replay it — if the replay also returns 200 but no write happens, the bug is in your idempotency logic, not the delivery.
Signature verification errors
Compare the raw body bytes from the Headers tab against what your HMAC library receives. URL-decoding or JSON re-serialisation before verification is the most common cause of signature mismatches.
Missing events
Check the History tab for a gap in delivery timestamps. If events arrived but your handler returned a non-2xx, look at the response body — most providers retry on 5xx, so a duplicate-key error on retry is a sign your endpoint isn't idempotent.
Payload schema changes
A provider quietly adds a new field or renames one. Export the captured payload as JSON and diff it against your struct definition or JSON Schema to pinpoint the breaking change before it reaches production.
Frequently asked questions
What is Hooklistener?
Hooklistener is a platform that gives you all the tools to work with webhooks. We include a next-gen, fully managed webhook proxy service. It handles forwarding, transformations, and retries for your webhooks, allowing you to offload complex event-handling logic and focus on building your core product.
Can I use Hooklistener for free?
Yes! We have a free plan that you can use for your projects for as long as you need. Sign up and try it out here.
How do I set up an endpoint to debug webhooks?
- Log in to your account.
- Navigate to the Endpoints section in the left-hand menu.
- Click New Endpoint in the top-right corner.
- Configure the settings you need, such as the endpoint name and description.
- Once configured, your endpoint is live and ready to receive webhooks!
How do I create a Debug Endpoint?
- Log in to your account
- Navigate to the Endpoints section in the left-hand menu.
- Click New Endpoint in the top-right corner.
- Configure a source, a destination and forwarding settings.
- Once configured, your endpoint is ready and will start forwarding webhooks reliably and managing retries.
What tools help developers debug SMS API webhook payloads?
HookListener, ngrok, Webhook.site, and RequestBin all capture webhook payloads. HookListener uniquely offers payload replay and SMS-specific header parsing.
How do I debug a Twilio webhook locally?
Use HookListener to capture the Twilio payload, then replay it to your localhost URL. You can inspect the X-Twilio-Signature header and verify HMAC integrity.
Can I test webhook payloads without deploying to production?
Yes — HookListener generates a free public URL that captures any POST/PUT request, letting you test without deploying.
What subscription is best for me?
Our free plan is intended to give developers a webhook debugging tool for sporadic usage, and cover personal projects. If you need it to help scale your business, we have pricing plans adapted to every case:
Our Team plan aims at covering bigger teams and collaboration needs. You can create webhook as a service workflows and scale them.
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