How to Self-Host Convoy: A Complete Guide to Running Your Own Webhook Infrastructure

Building a webhook system can initially seem straightforward, but as a product grows, challenges such as managing retries, failures, and ensuring reliable deliveries become apparent. Convoy addresses these challenges by offering a webhook gateway that allows engineering teams to efficiently publish, deliver, monitor, and manage webhooks without needing to build the infrastructure themselves. Convoy provides flexibility in deployment, offering both a managed cloud option for quick production deployment and a self-hosted option for organizations with strict compliance or data residency requirements. This guide walks users through setting up Convoy locally using Docker Compose, providing a comprehensive understanding of Convoy's components and how they work together. By the end, users will have a local instance with background workers, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Prometheus configured, and will have successfully delivered webhooks to Convoy Playground. The guide also highlights troubleshooting common issues and considerations for running Convoy in production, like using reverse proxies and managed services for databases, ensuring the system is ready for scaling and high traffic.

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