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title: pagerduty.sendEvent() function
description: >
  `pagerduty.sendEvent()` sends an event to PagerDuty and returns the HTTP response code of the request.
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`pagerduty.sendEvent()` sends an event to PagerDuty and returns the HTTP response code of the request.



##### Function type signature

```js
(
    class: A,
    client: B,
    clientURL: C,
    dedupKey: D,
    eventAction: E,
    group: F,
    routingKey: G,
    severity: H,
    source: I,
    summary: string,
    timestamp: J,
    ?component: K,
    ?customDetails: L,
    ?pagerdutyURL: string,
) => int where L: Equatable
```

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For more information, see [Function type signatures](/flux/v0/function-type-signatures/).
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## Parameters

### pagerdutyURL

PagerDuty endpoint URL.

Default is https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue.

### routingKey
({{< req >}})
Routing key generated from your PagerDuty integration.



### client
({{< req >}})
Name of the client sending the alert.



### clientURL
({{< req >}})
URL of the client sending the alert.



### dedupKey
({{< req >}})
Per-alert ID that acts as deduplication key and allows you to
acknowledge or change the severity of previous messages.
Supports a maximum of 255 characters.



### class
({{< req >}})
Class or type of the event.

Classes are user-defined.
For example, `ping failure` or `cpu load`.

### group
({{< req >}})
Logical grouping used by PagerDuty.

Groups are user-defined.
For example, `app-stack`.

### severity
({{< req >}})
Severity of the event.

Valid values:
- `critical`
- `error`
- `warning`
- `info`

### eventAction
({{< req >}})
Event type to send to PagerDuty.

Valid values:
- `trigger`
- `resolve`
- `acknowledge`

### source
({{< req >}})
Unique location of the affected system.
For example, the hostname or fully qualified domain name (FQDN).



### component

Component responsible for the event.



### summary
({{< req >}})
Brief text summary of the event used as the summaries or titles of associated alerts.
The maximum permitted length is 1024 characters.



### timestamp
({{< req >}})
Time the detected event occurred in RFC3339nano format.



### customDetails

Record with additional details about the event.




## Examples

### Send an event to PagerDuty

```js
import "pagerduty"
import "pagerduty"

pagerduty.sendEvent(
    routingKey: "example-routing-key",
    client: "example-client",
    clientURL: "http://example-url.com",
    dedupKey: "example-dedup-key",
    class: "example-class",
    eventAction: "trigger",
    group: "example-group",
    severity: "crit",
    component: "example-component",
    source: "example-source",
    summary: "example-summary",
    timestamp: now(),
    customDetails: {"example-key": "example value"},
)

```