Internet of Things
Bridge your IoT event streams to the systems that need them, reliably and at scale
Convoy bridges your internal event streams to external webhook consumers, handling reliable delivery of device telemetry, sensor alerts, and firmware updates at massive scale.
The unique challenges of webhook delivery at IoT scale
Millions of devices generating billions of events demands infrastructure built for sustained high throughput.
Volume is the defining challenge
Millions of devices generating events every few seconds means billions of webhook deliveries per day. Most webhook infrastructure wasn't built for this kind of sustained throughput.
Events originate from message brokers, not HTTP
IoT platforms typically use Kafka, MQTT, or similar message brokers internally. But your customers and partners expect webhook delivery over HTTP. Bridging these two worlds requires dedicated infrastructure.
Not every consumer can keep up
Some webhook consumers process events in real time; others batch-process hourly. Delivering device telemetry at full speed to a slow consumer overwhelms their system and triggers cascading failures.
Alert fatigue and event filtering
Sending every sensor reading to every consumer creates noise. Partners and customers need to filter events by device type, severity level, geographic region, or threshold values to receive only actionable notifications.
Event delivery infrastructure designed for IoT volumes
Convoy bridges your internal event streams to external consumers, reliably and at massive scale.
Message broker ingestion
Convoy natively ingests events from Kafka, Amazon SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and RabbitMQ. Your IoT services publish events to your broker as they normally would, and Convoy handles the external HTTP delivery.
Built for high throughput
Convoy's control and data plane architecture handles billions of events. Sustained high-volume delivery from millions of devices is a first-class use case, not an afterthought.
Per-endpoint rate limiting
Protect slow consumers from being overwhelmed by controlling delivery rate per endpoint. Each consumer receives events at a pace they can handle, without affecting delivery to others.
Advanced subscription filtering
Let consumers filter events by device ID, sensor type, severity level, geographic region, or any payload attribute. Deliver only the events each consumer actually needs.
Circuit breaker protection
When a consumer's endpoint fails, Convoy's circuit breaker pauses delivery to prevent backpressure from propagating through your system. Events queue up and deliver automatically on recovery.
Scalable event fan-out
A single device event might need to reach a fleet management dashboard, a maintenance system, a customer app, and an analytics pipeline. Convoy fans out to all destinations reliably.
Frequently asked questions
Can Convoy handle millions of device events per day?
Yes. Convoy's architecture is built for high sustained throughput. Our control and data plane design, combined with PostgreSQL-backed durability, handles billions of events for our customers.
How does Convoy integrate with MQTT or Kafka?
Convoy natively ingests events from Kafka, Amazon SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and RabbitMQ. For MQTT, you'd bridge your MQTT broker to one of these supported brokers, which is a common pattern in IoT architectures.
How do you prevent overwhelming slow webhook consumers?
Convoy supports per-endpoint rate limiting. Each consumer's delivery rate is controlled independently, so a consumer that processes events slowly won't be overwhelmed, and faster consumers aren't throttled unnecessarily.
Can consumers filter events by device type or region?
Yes. Convoy's subscription filtering supports filtering on any payload attribute, device type, sensor ID, geographic region, severity level, or any custom field in your event payload.
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