{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datadog/refs/heads/main/json-schema/datadog-events-event-create-attributes-schema.json", "title": "EventCreateAttributes", "description": "The attributes for a new event to be created", "type": "object", "properties": { "title": { "type": "string", "description": "The event title displayed in the Events Explorer (max 100 characters)", "maxLength": 100, "example": "Example Monitor" }, "message": { "type": "string", "description": "The event body text with additional details about the event (max 4000 characters)", "maxLength": 4000, "example": "CPU usage is high on {{host.name}}" }, "timestamp": { "type": "integer", "format": "int64", "description": "Unix timestamp in seconds for when the event occurred; defaults to current time if not specified", "example": 42 }, "priority": { "type": "string", "description": "The event priority level for filtering and sorting in the Events Explorer", "enum": [ "normal", "low" ], "default": "normal", "example": "normal" }, "host": { "type": "string", "description": "The hostname to associate with this event for infrastructure correlation", "example": "example_value" }, "tags": { "type": "array", "description": "List of tags to apply to the event in key:value format for filtering", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "alert_type": { "type": "string", "description": "The alert type category for visual display in the Events Explorer", "enum": [ "error", "warning", "info", "success", "user_update", "recommendation", "snapshot" ], "default": "info", "example": "error" }, "aggregation_key": { "type": "string", "description": "An arbitrary string used to group related events into a rollup (max 100 characters)", "maxLength": 100, "example": "example_value" }, "source_type_name": { "type": "string", "description": "The source technology or integration that generated this event (e.g., aws, chef, nagios)", "example": "Example Monitor" } }, "required": [ "title" ] }