HOhookdeck
Events

Get Event

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Retrieves details for a specific event.

When authenticated with a Tenant JWT, only events belonging to that tenant can be accessed. When authenticated with Admin API Key, events from any tenant can be accessed.

get/events/{event_id}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.outpost.hookdeck.com/2025-07-01
  • Auth
    • HTTP bearer
    • or HTTP bearer

Query parameters

tenant_idstring

Filter by tenant ID. Returns 404 if the event does not belong to the specified tenant. Ignored when using Tenant JWT authentication.

Response

Event details.

idstring
tenant_idstring

The tenant this event belongs to.

matched_destination_idsstring[]

The destination IDs that this event was routed to based on topic and filter matching.

topicstring
timestring date-time

Time the event was received/processed.

eligible_for_retryboolean

Whether this event can be retried.

metadataobject nullable

Key-value string pairs of metadata associated with the event.

dataobject

Freeform JSON data of the event.

Example response

{
  "id": "evt_123",
  "tenant_id": "tnt_123",
  "matched_destination_ids": [
    "des_456",
    "des_789"
  ],
  "topic": "user.created",
  "time": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "eligible_for_retry": true,
  "metadata": {
    "source": "crm"
  },
  "data": {
    "user_id": "userid",
    "status": "active"
  }
}

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