contentstack Events API

The events endpoint allows applications to track user actions and behavioral events for experience analytics and audience rule evaluation.

OpenAPI Specification

contentstack-events-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Contentstack Analytics Accounts Events API
  description: The Contentstack Analytics API provides access to usage and performance metrics for CMS, Launch, and Automate products within a Contentstack organization. Developers can retrieve analytics data programmatically to build custom dashboards, monitor content delivery performance, and track platform usage against plan limits. The API returns structured data suitable for aggregation with external analytics and business intelligence tools. Access is restricted to organization Owners and Admins. Requests use async job-based processing where initial POST calls queue the job and a subsequent GET call retrieves the results.
  version: v2
  contact:
    name: Contentstack Support
    url: https://www.contentstack.com/contact
  termsOfService: https://www.contentstack.com/legal/terms-of-service
servers:
- url: https://api.contentstack.io
  description: AWS North America Production Server
- url: https://eu-api.contentstack.com
  description: AWS Europe Production Server
- url: https://au-api.contentstack.com
  description: AWS Australia Production Server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- authtokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Events
  description: The events endpoint allows applications to track user actions and behavioral events for experience analytics and audience rule evaluation.
paths:
  /events:
    post:
      operationId: trackEvents
      summary: Track user events
      description: Records one or more user behavior events for experience analytics and audience evaluation. Supports both impression events (automatic tracking when experiences are shown) and custom events (defined in the Personalize Management API and triggered by specific user actions).
      tags:
      - Events
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectUid'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PersonalizeUserUidRequired'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TrackEventsRequest'
      responses:
        '202':
          description: Events accepted for processing.
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
    get:
      operationId: getAllEvents
      summary: Get all events
      description: Retrieves all custom event definitions in the Personalize project. Events are used to track user interactions and trigger audience membership updates.
      tags:
      - Events
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectUid'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of all events in the project.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EventList'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Forbidden:
      description: The request is not authorized for this project.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    BadRequest:
      description: The request is malformed or contains invalid parameters.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    EventList:
      type: object
      description: A list of custom event definitions.
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          description: Array of event objects.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PersonalizeEvent'
    PersonalizeEvent:
      type: object
      description: A custom event definition for tracking user actions.
      properties:
        uid:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier of the event.
        name:
          type: string
          description: Display name of the event.
        key:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable event key used in SDK tracking calls.
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: ISO 8601 timestamp when the event was created.
    TrackEventsRequest:
      type: array
      description: Array of event objects to track.
      items:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/TrackEvent'
    TrackEvent:
      type: object
      description: A single event to be tracked for the user.
      required:
      - eventKey
      properties:
        eventKey:
          type: string
          description: The key of the event to track. Use "impression" for automatic view tracking or a custom event key defined in the Personalize Management API.
        experience_uid:
          type: string
          description: The UID of the experience associated with this event. Required for impression events.
        variant_uid:
          type: string
          description: The UID of the variant shown to the user. Required for impression events.
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response.
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the error.
        status:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code.
  parameters:
    ProjectUid:
      name: x-project-uid
      in: header
      required: true
      description: The UID of the Contentstack Personalize project.
      schema:
        type: string
    PersonalizeUserUidRequired:
      name: x-cs-personalize-user-uid
      in: header
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier for the end user whose events are being tracked.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: OAuth 2.0 Bearer token (M2M) with analytics access.
    authtokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: authtoken
      description: Contentstack user authtoken. Only organization Owners and Admins can access analytics.
externalDocs:
  description: Contentstack Analytics API Documentation
  url: https://www.contentstack.com/docs/developers/apis/analytics-api