compass api error: CREATE_EVENT_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND
Asked by Phill Pafford:

Following the guide here on how to setup compass api events

* <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/compass/components/send-events-using-rest-api/>

Created two events, \`CUSTOM\` and \`DEPLOYMENT\` using the GraphQL process

example rest api request script  

```
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

COMPASS_CLOUD_INSTANCE=my-company
COMPASS_REST_API_VERSION=v1
COMPASS_USER_EMAIL=user@email.com
COMPASS_USER_TOKEN=myLongTokenBlahBlahBalh
COMPASS_BASE_URL="https://$COMPASS_CLOUD_INSTANCE.atlassian.net/gateway/api/compass/$COMPASS_REST_API_VERSION/events"

## NOTE: need to create the metric in the UI first, example: https://my-company.atlassian.net/compass/component/asdasdasdasdas-sdsd-sdsd-sdsd-asdasdasdasdsad
COMPASS_CLOUD_ID="aaaaaaaaaa-bbbb-1111-2222-ccccccccccccccc"

TIMESTAMP=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
COMPASS_CUSTOM_DISPLAY_NAME="display name"
COMPASS_CUSTOM_UPDATE_SEQUENCE_NUMBER=215
COMPASS_CUSTOM_DESCRIPTION="display description"
COMPASS_CUSTOM_URL="https://example.com"
## using ari from GraphQL response in setup steps
COMPASS_CUSTOM_EXTERNAL_EVENT_SOURCE_ID="ari:cloud:compass:long-string:event-source/another-long-string/yet-another-long-string"
COMPASS_CUSTOM_CUSTOM_EVENT_PROPERTIES_ID=1
COMPASS_CUSTOM_CUSTOM_EVENT_PROPERTIES_ICON=INFO

## data needs to be JSON, use JQ for this
COMPASS_EVENT_JSON_DATA=$( jq -n \
  --arg cloudId "$COMPASS_CLOUD_ID" \
  --arg cDisplayName "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_DISPLAY_NAME" \
  --arg cLastUpdated "$TIMESTAMP" \
  --argjson cUpdateSequenceNumber $COMPASS_CUSTOM_UPDATE_SEQUENCE_NUMBER \
  --arg cDescription "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_DESCRIPTION" \
  --arg cUrl "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_URL" \
  --arg cExternalEventSourceId "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_EXTERNAL_EVENT_SOURCE_ID" \
  --arg cCustomEventPropertiesId "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_CUSTOM_EVENT_PROPERTIES_ID" \
  --arg cCustomEventPropertiesIcon "$COMPASS_CUSTOM_CUSTOM_EVENT_PROPERTIES_ICON" \
 '{cloudId: $cloudId, event: {custom: {displayName: $cDisplayName, lastUpdated: $cLastUpdated, updateSequenceNumber: $cUpdateSequenceNumber, description: $cDescription, url: $cUrl, externalEventSourceId: $cExternalEventSourceId, customEventProperties: {id: $cCustomEventPropertiesId, icon: $cCustomEventPropertiesIcon}}}}'
 )

echo "DEBUG: "
echo $COMPASS_EVENT_JSON_DATA
echo ""

COMPASS_EVENT=`curl --request POST \
  --url $COMPASS_BASE_URL \
  --user $COMPASS_USER_EMAIL:$COMPASS_USER_TOKEN \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data "$COMPASS_EVENT_JSON_DATA"`

echo "COMPASS_EVENT: $COMPASS_EVENT"
```

response  

```
{
  "errors": [
  {
    "type": "CREATE_EVENT_SOURCE_NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "We could not create the event because the event source is not found. Please check that the external event source ID and the type of event being submitted match the event source.If a Forge App ID was used during event source creation, please also check you are using the same Forge App ID when accessing the event source."
   }
 ]
}
```


Answers:
author: Phill Pafford
body: SOLVED: when creating the event types in GraphQL, the name of X is what should be used and not the ARI of the event

```
{ "input": { "cloudId": "<your cloud ID>", "externalEventSourceId": "<external event source ID>", "eventType": "CUSTOM" } }
```

example

```
COMPASS_CUSTOM_EXTERNAL_EVENT_SOURCE_ID="what ever unique name you give it"
```


Tags: api

rest-api