Railway

Developer Tools

Deployment platform for apps, databases and background services.

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Why use Hookfire with Railway?

Instant push notifications

Get notified on your phone the moment a Railway webhook fires. No more checking dashboards.

Subscribe to what matters

Choose exactly which Railway events trigger notifications. Filter out the noise.

Team-wide delivery

Control who on your team gets notified and how: push notifications, record only, or both.

Setup in under 2 minutes

Copy a webhook URL, paste it in Railway, and you're done. No code required.

Supported events

Event	Sample notification
Deploy failed `Deployment.failed` ❌ api failed to deploy my-project (production) - fix: handle null response	❌ api failed to deploy my-project (production) - fix: handle null response
Deployment crashed `Deployment.crashed` 💥 api crashed my-project (production) - the running deployment stopped unexpectedly	💥 api crashed my-project (production) - the running deployment stopped unexpectedly

What people use Railway alerts for

Know when your code ships, and when it breaks Pull requests, deployments and production errors, without a pager rotation.

How to connect Railway

Step 1: Create an Integration

Go to your organization’s Integrations page.
Click Add Integration and select Railway.
You’ll receive a unique Webhook URL. Copy it.

Step 2: Add the Webhook in Railway

Open your project in Railway and click Settings (top right).
Open the Webhooks tab.
Paste your Hookfire webhook URL.
Add the custom header from Step 3.
Optionally choose which events to send, then click Save Webhook.

Railway webhooks cover every environment in the project.

Step 3: Signing Secret (custom header)

Railway does not sign its webhooks. Its docs recommend sending a secret in a custom header instead, and Hookfire checks it:

Make up a long random string.
In the Railway webhook form, add a header named X-Hookfire-Secret with that string as the value.
Paste the same string into the Signing Secret field on your Hookfire integration page.

Deliveries without the header, or with a different value, are refused. Railway stores header values encrypted and does not show them again, so keep a copy until you have pasted it into Hookfire.

Step 4: Subscribe to Events

On your Hookfire integration page, toggle on the events you want to receive push notifications for.

Step 5: Test

Click the Test button next to an event on your integration page.

Supported Events

Event	Description
`Deployment.failed`	A deployment failed to build or start
`Deployment.crashed`	A running deployment crashed

Railway also sends successful deployment, volume and resource alert events, but does not publish their event names, so Hookfire does not offer them yet.

Reference: Railway webhooks.