Event

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canonical/main/json-schema/canonical-event-schema.json",
  "title": "Event",
  "description": "Event defines the structure of an event sent on the events API endpoint",
  "x-generated": "2026-10-04",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/canonical-events-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/Event",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "metadata": {
      "description": "Metadata represents the actual event data"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "description": "Timestamp (in ISO8601 format) is filled when sending the event if empty"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "Type defines the type of event. Listeners can watch specific\nevent types",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "operation",
        "lifecycle"
      ]
    }
  }
}