diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ab566e836..e632d8621 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1680,9 +1680,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flate2"
-version = "1.0.26"
+version = "1.0.28"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3b9429470923de8e8cbd4d2dc513535400b4b3fef0319fb5c4e1f520a7bef743"
+checksum = "46303f565772937ffe1d394a4fac6f411c6013172fadde9dcdb1e147a086940e"
 dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
  "miniz_oxide",
@@ -2777,6 +2777,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "dump",
  "enum-iterator",
  "file-store",
+ "flate2",
  "insta",
  "log",
  "meili-snap",
diff --git a/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml b/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
index 4d6e4ffd0..a8c19f435 100644
--- a/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/index-scheduler/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ derive_builder = "0.12.0"
 dump = { path = "../dump" }
 enum-iterator = "1.4.0"
 file-store = { path = "../file-store" }
+flate2 = "1.0.28"
 log = "0.4.17"
 meilisearch-auth = { path = "../meilisearch-auth" }
 meilisearch-types = { path = "../meilisearch-types" }
diff --git a/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs b/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
index 5d44ed104..bfaca3126 100644
--- a/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
+++ b/index-scheduler/src/lib.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ use dump::{KindDump, TaskDump, UpdateFile};
 pub use error::Error;
 pub use features::RoFeatures;
 use file_store::FileStore;
+use flate2::bufread::GzEncoder;
+use flate2::Compression;
 use meilisearch_types::error::ResponseError;
 use meilisearch_types::features::{InstanceTogglableFeatures, RuntimeTogglableFeatures};
 use meilisearch_types::heed::byteorder::BE;
@@ -1288,7 +1290,10 @@ impl IndexScheduler {
                 buffer.push(b'\n');
             }
 
-            let _ = ureq::post(url).send_bytes(&buffer).unwrap();
+            let reader = GzEncoder::new(&buffer[..], Compression::default());
+            if let Err(e) = ureq::post(url).set("Content-Encoding", "gzip").send(reader) {
+                log::error!("While sending data to the webhook: {e}");
+            }
         }
 
         Ok(())
diff --git a/meilisearch/tests/tasks/webhook.rs b/meilisearch/tests/tasks/webhook.rs
index e852839ec..688d35e8b 100644
--- a/meilisearch/tests/tasks/webhook.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/tests/tasks/webhook.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use actix_web::{post, App, HttpResponse, HttpServer};
 use meili_snap::{json_string, snapshot};
 use meilisearch::Opt;
 use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+use url::Url;
 
 use crate::common::{default_settings, Server};
 use crate::json;
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ async fn test_basic_webhook() {
 
     let db_path = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
     let server = Server::new_with_options(Opt {
-        task_webhook_url: Some(url),
+        task_webhook_url: Some(Url::parse(&url).unwrap()),
         ..default_settings(db_path.path())
     })
     .await