Event

An event is a single auditable event, e.g. a user logging in to a system. A Stream typically contains multiple events.

In a Raw Events Raw Events This is a Stream Type used for Streams received by Stroom. Streams received by Stroom will be in a variety of text formats (CSV, delimited, fixed width, XML, JSON, etc.). Until they have been processed by a pipeline they are essentially just unstructured character data with no concept of what is a record/event. A Parser in a pipeline is required to provide the demarcation between records/events.Click to see more details... an event is typically represented as block of XML or JSON, a single line for CSV data. In an Events Events This is a Stream Type in Stroom. An Events stream consists of processed/cooked data that has been demarcated into individual Events.Click to see more details... Stream Stream A Stream is the unit of data that Stroom works with and will typically contain many Events.Click to see more details... an event is identified by its Event ID which its position in that stream (as a one-based number). The Event ID combined with a Stream ID provide a unique identifier for an event within a Stroom instance.

Last modified April 7, 2026: Merge branch '7.11' into 7.12 (5ca47c5)