diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/hooks_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/hooks_controller.rb
index cab8fd76e6c..2d6c3111192 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/hooks_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/hooks_controller.rb
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class Projects::HooksController < Projects::ApplicationController
   def test
     if !@project.empty_repo?
       status = TestHookService.new.execute(hook, current_user)
+
       if status
         flash[:notice] = 'Hook successfully executed.'
       else
diff --git a/app/models/hooks/web_hook.rb b/app/models/hooks/web_hook.rb
index 23fa01e0b70..8479d4aecf6 100644
--- a/app/models/hooks/web_hook.rb
+++ b/app/models/hooks/web_hook.rb
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ class WebHook < ActiveRecord::Base
   def execute(data)
     parsed_url = URI.parse(url)
     if parsed_url.userinfo.blank?
-      WebHook.post(url, body: data.to_json, headers: { "Content-Type" => "application/json" }, verify: false)
+      WebHook.post(url,
+                   body: data.to_json,
+                   headers: { "Content-Type" => "application/json" },
+                   verify: false)
     else
       post_url = url.gsub("#{parsed_url.userinfo}@", "")
       auth = {
@@ -45,6 +48,9 @@ class WebHook < ActiveRecord::Base
                    verify: false,
                    basic_auth: auth)
     end
+  rescue SocketError, Errno::ECONNREFUSED => e
+    logger.error("WebHook Error => #{e}")
+    false
   end
 
   def async_execute(data)
diff --git a/app/services/test_hook_service.rb b/app/services/test_hook_service.rb
index b6b1ef29b51..17d86a7a274 100644
--- a/app/services/test_hook_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/test_hook_service.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,5 @@ class TestHookService
   def execute(hook, current_user)
     data = GitPushService.new.sample_data(hook.project, current_user)
     hook.execute(data)
-    true
-  rescue SocketError
-    false
   end
 end