EventBridge Rule matching GC Premium App events

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Stuck on filtering specific events in EventBridge. I’m trying to catch only contact-center:agent-status-changed events from our Genesys Cloud org, but the rule triggers on everything.

{
 "detail-type": ["Genesys Cloud Event"],
 "source": ["com.genesyscloud"],
 "detail": {
 "eventType": ["contact-center:agent-status-changed"]
 }
}

“The detail object contains the full event payload…”

The eventType field isn’t matching. Is it nested deeper? The docs are vague on the exact schema structure for the detail object.

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the issue is almost certainly how EventBridge handles nested objects in the pattern filter. you’re assuming eventType is a top-level key in detail, but Genesys Cloud wraps the actual event type inside a specific structure depending on the webhook version. for premium app events, it’s usually under detail.eventType or sometimes just detail.type if you’re using the older format.

here’s the working pattern i use for my gRPC sidecar in Singapore. it catches the status change without noise:

{
 "source": ["com.genesyscloud"],
 "detail-type": ["Genesys Cloud Event"],
 "detail": {
 "eventType": ["contact-center:agent-status-changed"]
 }
}

wait, that looks like yours. the real gotcha? case sensitivity and exact string match. Genesys sends contact-center:agent-status-changed but sometimes the payload has extra whitespace or the event type is slightly different in beta orgs. check your raw payload in CloudWatch logs first.

steps to fix:

  1. Capture the raw payload: send all events to a dead-letter queue or a simple Lambda logger for 5 mins.
  2. Inspect detail: look for the exact key. is it eventType? type? event_type?
  3. Update the rule: use the exact key and value from the log.
  4. Test with detail-type: sometimes filtering by detail-type alone is enough if you only care about that one event.

if you’re still getting everything, try adding a condition on the id field or a specific organizationId. EventBridge is picky. i’ve seen rules fail because the detail object was too deep. flatten it in a Lambda if you can’t get the pattern to work.

also, make sure your webhook in Genesys Cloud is set to send all events, not just a subset. if the webhook is filtered, EventBridge won’t see the others anyway.

check the CloudWatch logs. they’ll tell you exactly what’s coming in.