Platform Events Developer Guide

Platform Events Developer Guide
Delivering Custom Notifications with Platform Events
Defining Your Custom Platform Event
Publishing Platform Events
Subscribing to Platform Events
Set Up Debug Logs
Flows
Processes
Apex Triggers
Lightning Components
Pub/Sub API
CometD
Group Your Event Streams
Create a Custom Channel for Custom Platform Events Using the API
Prerequisite: Define Platform Events
Create a Custom Channel and Add Platform Events with Tooling API
Metadata API Example: Create a Custom Channel and Add Platform Events
Subscribe to the Channel
Create a Custom Channel for Real-Time Event Monitoring Events Using the API
List Custom Channels and Channel Members
Filter Your Event Streams
Obtain a Platform Event’s Subscribers
Identify and Match Event Messages with the EventUuid Field
Testing Your Platform Event in Apex
Encrypting Platform Event Messages at Rest in the Event Bus
Monitor Platform Event Publishing and Delivery Usage
Considerations
Examples
Reference
PDF

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Create a Custom Channel for Custom Platform Events Using the API

Let’s walk through the steps to create a channel and add two platform events via channel members. Then, you can subscribe to the channel to validate receiving event messages for platform events.