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Working with event destinations

Working with event destinations

A destination is a delivery target for a notification. In other contexts, destinations are also called channels, sinks, or consumers.

Destination categories

Destinations are of two categories: human and service.

Human destinations

Human destinations are devices, servers, or applications that present notifications for human consumption. The following human destinations are supported by the Event Notifications service:

The Inbuilt Email and Inbuilt SMS destinations are provided out of the box, and are available whenever you create an instance of Event Notifications. Other destinations must be added manually and require configuration.

Service destinations

Service destinations are cloud services or application where notifications are consumed programmatically. The following service destination is supported by the Event Notifications service: