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Apex Trigger Event Type

Apex Trigger events contain details about triggers that fire in an organization.

For details about event monitoring, see the Trailhead Event Monitoring module or REST API Developer’s Guide.

Fields

Field Details
CLIENT_IP
Type
String
Description
The IP address of the client that’s using Salesforce services. A Salesforce internal IP (such as a login from Salesforce Workbench or AppExchange) is shown as “Salesforce.com IP”.
For example: 96.43.144.26.
CPU_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The CPU time in milliseconds used to complete the request. This field indicates the amount of activity taking place in the app server layer.
DB_TOTAL_TIME
Type
Number
Description
Time (in milliseconds) spent waiting for database processing in aggregate for all operations in the request. Compare this field to CPU_TIME to determine whether performance issues are occurring in the database layer or in your own code.
ENTITY_NAME
Type
String
Description
The name of the object affected by the trigger.
EVENT_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of event. The value is always ApexTrigger.
EXEC_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The end-to-end Apex execution time (in milliseconds).
LOGIN_KEY
Type
String
Description
The string that ties together all events in a given user’s login session. It starts with a login event and ends with either a logout event or the user session expiring.
For example: GeJCsym5eyvtEK2I.
ORGANIZATION_ID
Type
Id
Description
The 15-character ID of the organization.
For example: 00D000000000123.
Example
REQUEST_ID
Type
String
Description
The unique ID of a single transaction. A transaction can contain one or more events. Each event in a given transaction has the same REQUEST_ID.
For example: 3nWgxWbDKWWDIk0FKfF5DV.
REQUEST_STATUS
Type
String
Description
The status of the request for a page view or user interface action.
Possible values are:
  • S—Success. Salesforce handled the request successfully. If an Apex controller throws an exception, this status is also returned.
  • F—Failure. Typically 4xx or 5xx HTTP codes, such as no permission to view page, page took too long to render, page is read-only.
  • U—Undefined
  • A—Authorization Error
  • R—Redirect. Typically a 3xx HTTP code, possibly initiated by an Apex controller in a Visualforce page.
  • N—Not Found. 404 error.
Possible Values
RUN_TIME
Type
Number
Description
The amount of time that the request took in milliseconds.

Requests with a value over five seconds are considered long-running requests for the purposes of the Concurrent Long-Running Apex Limit.

HTTP callout processing time isn't included when calculating the 5-second limit. We pause the timer for the callout and resume it when the callout completes.

Note

SESSION_KEY
Type
String
Description
The user’s unique session ID. You can use this value to identify all user events within a session. When a user logs out and logs in again, a new session is started.
For example: d7DEq/ANa7nNZZVD.
TIMESTAMP
Type
String
Description
The access time of Salesforce services in GMT.
For example: 20130715233322.670.
TIMESTAMP_DERIVED
Type
DateTime
Description
The access time of Salesforce services in ISO8601-compatible format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.sssZ).
For example: 2015-07-27T11:32:59.555Z. Timezone is GMT.
TRIGGER_ID
Type
String
Description
The 15-character ID of the trigger that was fired.
TRIGGER_NAME
Type
String
Description
For triggers coming from managed packages, TRIGGER_NAME includes a namespace prefix separated with a . character. If no namespace prefix is present, the trigger is from an unmanaged trigger.
Examples:
  • examplePackage.managedExampleTrigger - Managed trigger from the examplePackage namespace

  • unmanagedExampleTrigger - Unmanaged trigger
TRIGGER_TYPE
Type
String
Description
The type of this trigger.
Possible Values
  • AfterInsert
  • AfterUpdate
  • BeforeInsert
  • BeforeUpdate
URI
Type
String
Description
The URI of the page that’s receiving the request.
For example: /home/home.jsp.
URI_ID_DERIVED
Type
ID
Description
The 18-character case insensitive ID of the URI of the page that’s receiving the request.
USER_ID
Type
Id
Description
The 15-character ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.
For example: 00530000009M943
USER_ID_DERIVED
Type
Id
Description
The 18-character case insensitive ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.
For example: 00590000000I1SNIA0.