Deploy and Host Webhook Tester on Railway

Webhook Tester is a self-hosted tool for testing and debugging webhooks and HTTP requests. It lets you generate unique URLs, inspect incoming requests in real time, and customize responses (status codes, headers, body, delays) so you can reliably debug integrations without relying on third-party webhook testing services.

About Hosting Webhook Tester

Hosting Webhook Tester on Railway gives you a lightweight, always-on endpoint for capturing and inspecting webhooks in the cloud. The service runs as a single containerized web app that listens on an HTTP port and can use in-memory storage out of the box, so you can get started without extra infrastructure. For more advanced setups, it supports Redis and filesystem-backed storage for persistence and scaling. Configuration is done entirely via environment variables, making it straightforward to adjust logging, storage drivers, pub/sub, session TTLs, and optional tunneling behavior to match each Railway environment.

Common Use Cases

• Testing outbound webhooks from providers like Stripe, GitHub, Slack, or your own apps against unique, inspectable URLs.
• Debugging payloads, headers, retries, and response handling by customizing status codes, headers, bodies, and artificial delays.
• Running a private alternative to public webhook testing services for internal development, QA, and staging environments.

Dependencies for Webhook Tester Hosting

• A container runtime capable of running the Webhook Tester image and exposing its HTTP service (typically on port 8080).
• Optional Redis or filesystem storage when you want persistence or non-memory-backed storage for webhook sessions and events.

Deployment Dependencies

• Source code and documentation: https://github.com/tarampampam/webhook-tester

Why Deploy Webhook Tester on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Webhook Tester on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.