Get started with Pushrail

Pushrail accepts your canonical product events and delivers them to the destinations each of your customers configures (webhooks, object storage, data warehouses, message queues and streams, databases, and analytics) with automatic retries, replay, and full delivery logs.

Quick start

1. 1
   Get an API key

   Sign up at app.pushrail.io, then open Settings → API keys and create a key scoped to an environment. Keys are prefixed (pr_dev_…, pr_sta_…, pr_pro_…). See Authentication for scopes and rotation.

2. 2
   Send an event

   Post your first canonical event to the ingest API. A successful call returns 202 Accepted with an event id.

3. 3
   Add a destination and routing rule

   In the dashboard, create a Webhook destination and a rule that matches your event type. Then watch it deliver under Observability → Deliveries.

curl -X POST https://api.pushrail.io/events \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PUSHRAIL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "eventType": "order.completed",
    "occurredAt": "2026-05-16T18:24:00Z",
    "source": "checkout-service",
    "customerExternalId": "cust_42",
    "payload": { "orderId": "ord_9001", "totalCents": 4999, "currency": "USD" }
  }'

Next steps

• Concepts, events, destinations, routing, and replay in one page
• Sending events, batch ingest, idempotency, error handling
• Configuring destinations, per-type setup for all 18 adapters
• Replay & recovery, re-send failed deliveries