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About Stax Events

Events provides a collection of real-time data that can be used to observe, monitor, and build event-driven applications based on actions that have occurred within your Stax tenancy.

Events are delivered via different channels depending on the source of the activity:

Consider the following when determining how to best consume events:

Stax-Generated EventsCost & Compliance Notifications
OverviewEvents that reflect activity which occur within your Stax tenancy, such as logging in to the console, creating accounts, or creating an API tokenCost alerts, or non-compliant resource alerts based on your configured views and segments
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DestinationEventBridge in your logging accountNotifications
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ProducerStaxStax
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LocationPer RegionGlobal
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TechnologyAmazon EventBridgeNotifications
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Event TypesReview the events schema for a list of Stax-generated eventsAlerts generated by the Stax Cost & Compliance module can be found here
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Stax-Generated Events

Stax provides a stream of real-time events that are generated by your Stax tenancy and Stax-managed AWS accounts. These events allow you to automate actions from activities occurring within your Stax tenancy. The events are generated as users and systems interact with Stax. They include actions, such as, authentication, AWS account creation, and API token creation.

Stax-generated events are collected and centralized for enrichment. Within your Stax-managed AWS accounts, events from every region are captured.

Enriched events contain more meaningful and consumable data. This can be beneficial for security, auditing, and automation purposes.

One example of enrichment is evident when an event contains a resource ID, for example, UserID. This field is typically a UUID that is challenging to associate back to a user or system. The enrichment process will enhance the event payload by including additional human-friendly attributes associated with that resource ID, for example, the user's Name.

Events Schema

Review the format of Stax Events:

Cost & Compliance Module Notifications

In addition to the default email-based notifications, Stax can publish targeted budget or non-compliant resource alerts using Notifications.