> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.costory.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a new event > Endpoint to create a new event from the internal API. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /events openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Costory version: '1.0' description: API Documentation servers: - url: https://app-api.costory.io security: [] paths: /events: post: tags: - Events summary: Create a new event description: Endpoint to create a new event from the internal API. requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: id: type: string metadata: type: object properties: link: type: string source: type: string enum: - github - custom - provider - api name: type: string minLength: 5 date: type: string nullable: true format: date-time description: type: string tags: type: array items: type: object properties: key: type: string value: type: string required: - key - value category: type: string enum: - BUSINESS - TECHNICAL - PROVIDER labels: type: array items: type: string metricId: type: string description: >- Legacy event-level metric context. Usually omit it: when a chart is provided in widgetEvents, the backend derives this from its first cost query. groupBy: type: string description: >- Legacy event-level group-by dimension. Usually omit it: when a chart is provided in widgetEvents, the backend derives this from its first cost query. datePreset: type: string enum: - TRAILING_90_DAYS - TRAILING_30_DAYS - TRAILING_45_DAYS - TRAILING_7_DAYS - TRAILING_3_DAYS - TRAILING_14_WEEKS - MTD - QTD - YTD - LAST_WEEK - LAST_MONTH - LAST_6_MONTHS - LAST_12_MONTHS - LAST_4_YEARS - LAST_3_MONTHS - LAST_INVOICE_MONTH description: >- Legacy event-level chart period preset. Usually omit it: the backend derives the period from widgetEvents. startDate: type: string description: >- Legacy event-level custom period start date. Usually omit it: the backend derives the period from widgetEvents. endDate: type: string description: >- Legacy event-level custom period end date. Usually omit it: the backend derives the period from widgetEvents. conditions: type: object nullable: true properties: {} additionalProperties: {} description: >- Legacy event-level query-builder filter. Usually omit it: the backend derives conditions from the first cost query's whereClause in widgetEvents. currency: type: string enum: - EUR - USD - GBP - CNY default: USD description: >- Legacy event-level chart currency. Usually omit it: the backend derives currency from widgetEvents. widgetEvents: type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string x: type: number 'y': type: number w: type: number h: type: number createdAt: type: string nullable: true format: date-time updatedAt: type: string nullable: true format: date-time title: type: string default: '' description: type: string default: '' request: type: object properties: period: type: object properties: startDate: type: string nullable: true format: date-time endDate: type: string nullable: true format: date-time datePreset: type: string nullable: true enum: - TRAILING_90_DAYS - TRAILING_30_DAYS - TRAILING_45_DAYS - TRAILING_7_DAYS - TRAILING_3_DAYS - TRAILING_14_WEEKS - MTD - QTD - YTD - LAST_WEEK - LAST_MONTH - LAST_6_MONTHS - LAST_12_MONTHS - LAST_4_YEARS - LAST_3_MONTHS - LAST_INVOICE_MONTH - null aggBy: type: string enum: - Hour - Day - Week - Month - Period forecastDays: type: integer minimum: 0 comparisonPeriod: type: object properties: startDate: type: string nullable: true format: date-time endDate: type: string nullable: true format: date-time enabled: type: boolean chartType: type: string enum: - WATERFALL - TABLE - KPI_BREAKDOWN required: - startDate - endDate - enabled - chartType required: - aggBy queries: type: array items: oneOf: - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - condition expression: type: string minLength: 1 name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE required: - type - expression - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - formula formula: type: string name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window shiftAmount: type: integer shiftUnit: type: string enum: - DAY - WEEK - MONTH required: - type - formula - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - metric metricId: type: string rawMetric: type: string groupBy: anyOf: - type: string - type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 - nullable: true type: string enum: - null unitOverride: type: string aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN reducer: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE colorPalette: type: string enum: - DEFAULT - PIYG - RDYLBU - CLASSIC default: DEFAULT rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window shiftAmount: type: integer shiftUnit: type: string enum: - DAY - WEEK - MONTH required: - type - metricId - aggregator - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - cost groupBy: anyOf: - type: string - type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 - nullable: true type: string enum: - null aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN currency: type: string enum: - USD - EUR - GBP - CNY whereClause: type: object properties: {} additionalProperties: {} metricId: type: string enum: - cost - effective_cost - list_cost - contracted_cost - unblended_cost - net_unblended_cost - amortized_cost - net_amortized_cost extendDashboardConditions: type: boolean default: true name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 reducer: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE colorPalette: type: string enum: - DEFAULT - PIYG - RDYLBU - CLASSIC default: DEFAULT rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window shiftAmount: type: integer shiftUnit: type: string enum: - DAY - WEEK - MONTH required: - type - aggregator - whereClause - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - usage whereClause: type: object properties: {} additionalProperties: {} aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN groupBy: anyOf: - type: string - type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 - nullable: true type: string enum: - null metricId: type: string name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 reducer: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE colorPalette: type: string enum: - DEFAULT - PIYG - RDYLBU - CLASSIC default: DEFAULT rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window shiftAmount: type: integer shiftUnit: type: string enum: - DAY - WEEK - MONTH required: - type - whereClause - aggregator - metricId - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - budget budgetId: type: string budgetLineId: type: string groupBy: anyOf: - type: string - type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 - nullable: true type: string enum: - null name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 virtualDimensionValue: type: string visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE colorPalette: type: string enum: - DEFAULT - PIYG - RDYLBU - CLASSIC default: DEFAULT rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN default: SUM required: - type - budgetId - name - colorIndex - chartType - type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - externalMetric provider: type: string enum: - tsuga - bigquery integrationId: type: string minLength: 1 description: >- External metric integration ID from list_metrics(includeExternal: true). metricName: type: string minLength: 1 aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN groupByFields: type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 maxItems: 7 default: [] conditions: type: string dateColumn: type: string minLength: 1 metricColumn: type: string minLength: 1 gapFillingMethod: type: string enum: - ZERO - FORWARD_FILL - LINEAR_INTERPOLATION - SPREAD name: type: string alias: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 50 visible: type: boolean default: true colorIndex: type: number chartType: type: string enum: - BAR - LINE - AREA - WATERFALL - TABLE colorPalette: type: string enum: - DEFAULT - PIYG - RDYLBU - CLASSIC default: DEFAULT rollingAggregation: type: object properties: aggregator: type: string enum: - SUM - AVG - MAX - MIN window: type: object properties: preset: type: string enum: - MONTH - WEEK relativeDays: type: integer minimum: 1 required: - aggregator - window required: - type - provider - integrationId - metricName - aggregator - name - colorIndex - chartType discriminator: propertyName: type eventsFilter: type: object properties: githubSourceRepos: type: array items: type: string default: [] enableAllGithubRepos: type: boolean customBusinessEvents: type: boolean default: true customTechnicalEvents: type: boolean default: true labels: type: array items: type: string default: [] commitments: type: boolean default: false reservations: type: boolean default: false marketplacePurchases: type: boolean default: false skuPriceChanges: type: boolean default: false sources: type: array items: type: string enum: - custom - provider - github - api bookmarkedEvents: type: array items: type: string scopeId: type: string nullable: true limitOverride: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 1000 required: - period - queries - eventsFilter - bookmarkedEvents required: - x - 'y' - w - h - request maxItems: 1 description: >- Chart annotation associated with the event. Send an empty array for an event without a chart, or one item containing its grid layout, title, description, and Advanced Explorer request. POST /events accepts at most one item. createdBy: type: object nullable: true properties: id: type: string firstName: type: string lastName: type: string required: - id - firstName - lastName required: - metadata - name - date - description - tags - category - labels - widgetEvents example: name: Migrated checkout service to Graviton date: '2026-07-20' description: >- Deployed ARM64 instances for the checkout service, reducing its EC2 compute cost by approximately 20%. category: TECHNICAL metadata: source: custom link: https://github.com/acme/checkout/pull/4821 tags: - key: service value: checkout - key: change value: graviton-migration labels: - production - aws currency: USD widgetEvents: [] responses: '201': description: Event created successfully content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/EventIdResponse' '400': description: Bad request content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/BadRequest' '401': description: Unauthorized content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Unauthorized' security: - bearerAuth: [] components: schemas: EventIdResponse: type: string BadRequest: type: object properties: error: type: string description: Error code reason: type: string description: Human-readable reason details: description: Additional details summary: type: string description: Optional short summary required: - error Unauthorized: type: object properties: error: type: string description: Unauthorized error message required: - error securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT or Clerk ak_* API key description: >- Send `Authorization: Bearer ` using either a Clerk session JWT or a Clerk API key (`ak_*`). API keys may identify a user (`user_*`) or organization (`org_*`) principal and are generated in the Clerk Dashboard under API keys. ````