Sending events
The Stream API lets you collect and send behavioral data to Sitecore CDP in real time. The behavioral data can include a guest's page views, clicks, searches, and identifiers.
To capture data in JavaScript or TypeScript web applications, we recommend that you use the Cloud SDK or the Engage SDK. These SDKs use the Stream API behind the scenes and let you easily capture data in your web app. Use the Cloud SDK if you have a JSS Next.js or JSS Angular application connected to XM Cloud. Use the Engage SDK in other JavaScript applications.
Your organization can send additional, custom data with events and use that data in batch segmentation and audience exports.
To ensure that you can access view the event data in the Sitecore CDP UI and use the data elsewhere in Sitecore CDP, including custom data, you must model the event object, and the optional event data extensions and custom events, according to your organization's integration: