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CloudEvents

CloudEvents is a CNCF specification for describing event data in a common, vendor-neutral format. It defines required and optional context attributes and protocol bindings so events can be produced, routed, and consumed consistently across systems.

cloudevents.io/The standard

CNCF — graduatedGoverning body · Linux Foundation

2018First published

1.0.2Current version

Yes — JSON Schema, Protocol BuffersMachine-readable schema · open

7providers in the catalog

Also known as CloudEvents Specification.

Providers that carry CloudEvents 7

These providers' own APIs.json profiles carry CloudEvents as a tag — the provider's statement that the standard is part of what it does. APIs.io has not verified the implementation on this page; the de facto profiles on this site are where that measurement exists. Ordered by Kin Score.

Virto Commerceexemplar · 71.4 Azure Event Griddeveloping · 40.3 OpenMeterthin · 37.7 CloudEventsthin · 37.6 Apache EventMeshthin · 32.6 Eventsthin · 28.8 Event-Driven Architectureminimal · 3.9

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