HookWatch

What it does

HookWatch is a unified monitoring and observability platform designed for developers and small teams to manage the invisible parts of their infrastructure. It provides real-time monitoring, logging, and automatic retries for webhooks, cron jobs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calls for AI agents. By offering a centralized dashboard and a local-first CLI, HookWatch helps prevent silent failures, allows for easy debugging of payloads, and ensures reliable delivery of critical events from providers like Stripe, Shopify, and GitHub. It features smart buffering to capture webhooks during downtime and human-readable schedules for cron management.

Core features

• ✦Real-time Webhook Feed & Payload Inspection
• ✦Cron Job Monitoring with human-readable schedules
• ✦MCP Proxy for AI agent observability and latency tracking
• ✦Automatic Retries with exponential backoff
• ✦Transparent Request Buffering during service downtime
• ✦Local-first CLI and Interactive Terminal UI (TUI)
• ✦Unified Dashboard for multi-module metrics

Use cases

• →Monitoring and replaying failed Stripe payment webhooks
• →Preventing silent failures of daily database backup cron jobs
• →Tracking latency and errors in AI agent tool calls via MCP
• →Debugging webhook payloads from GitHub or Shopify in real-time