website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/event.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Event	event	2022-01-16	/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/cluster-resources/event-v1/	A report of an event somewhere in the cluster. It generally denotes some state change in the system.		core-object fundamental

Each Event is a report of an event somewhere in the {{< glossary_tooltip text="cluster" term_id="cluster" >}}. It generally denotes some state change in the system.

Events have a limited retention time and triggers and messages may evolve with time. Event consumers should not rely on the timing of an event with a given reason reflecting a consistent underlying trigger, or the continued existence of events with that reason.

Events should be treated as informative, best-effort, supplemental data.

In Kubernetes, auditing generates a different kind of Event record (API group audit.k8s.io).