Add machine readable events
minor #12299 Add machine readable events (dawehner)

This PR was submitted for the master branch but it was merged into the 2.3 branch instead (closes #12299).

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Add machine readable events

As discussed in [#11878] it would be great to have some simple machine readable way to find events

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #11878
| License       | MIT

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