# Events API

Baselime provides an Events API which enables you to send data to Baselime by making a POST request to the API endpoint. It enables you to send data directly from your applications or services to Baselime, rather than using a logging or monitoring service as an intermediary.

curl -X 'POST' 'https://events.baselime.io/v1/logs' \
  -H 'x-api-key: $BASELIME_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-service: my-service' \
  -d '[
        {
          "message": "This is an example log event",
          "error": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'something' of undefined",
          "requestId": "6092d6f0-3bfa-4d62-9d0b-5bc7ae6518a1",
          "namespace": "https://api.domain.com/resource/{id}"
        },
        {
          "message": "This is another example log event",
          "requestId": "6092d6f0-3bfa-4d62-9d0b-5bc7ae6518a1",
          "data": {"userId": "01HBRCB38K2K4V5SDR7YC1D0ZB"},
          "duration": 127
        }
      ]'

Each request ingests a batch of events into Baselime. Events are part of the request body. Baselime supports Content-Type application/json.

[
  {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"},
  {"key3":"value3","key4":"value4"}
]

The request body must be an array of JSON objects. Any element of the array that cannot be parsed as valid JSON will be rejected.

Requests must be made to the /<dataset> route. <dataset> is the name of the dataset you want events to be stored in.

Add a public Baselime API key in the x-api-key header to all requests made to the Events API. You can get your API key from the Baselime console.

Optionally, you can send the service and/or namespace properties in the request headers

The Events API validates the every request and returns a 400 Bad Request status code if any of the events fail validation. If some events pass validation and others fail, Baselime will ingest the events that pass validation. If you encounter a 400 Bad Request error when submitting events to the Events API, the events that failed validation will be listed in the body of the request under the invalid key.

• Baselime accepts up to 6MB of uncompressed data per request
• Each event must be a properly formatted JSON
• Each event must be smaller than 256kb of uncompressed JSON

Baselime returns a 202 response for all valid requests to the Events API, and a range on of non-200 responses for errors.

We welcome feedback on API responses and error messages. Reach out to us in our Slack community with any request or suggestion you may have.