---
title: "Create Event Gateway"
method: POST
path: "/v1/event-gateways"
tags: ["Houdini Event Gateways"]
---

# Create Event Gateway

`POST /v1/event-gateways`

Create a Event gateway in the Konnect Organization.

## Request body

- CreateGatewayRequest — The request schema for the create gateway request.
  - `name` string, required — The name of the Gateway.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the Gateway.
  - `labels` Labels — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".

## Response `201`

A response to creating a gateway.

- EventGatewayInfo — The gateway object contains information about a Konnect gateway.
  - `id` string, uuid, required — The gateway ID.
  - `name` string, required — The name of the Gateway.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the Gateway.
  - `labels` Labels — Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8604 timestamp representation of gateway creation date.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8604 timestamp representation of gateway update date.
  - `nodes_total` integer, required — The total number of nodes associated with the Event Gateway.
  - `virtual_clusters_total` integer, required — The total number of virtual clusters associated with the Event Gateway.
  - `version` string, required — The version number of the event gateway. Every change to an entity under this gateway will modify the version.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Not Found
- `409` — Conflict
- `500` — Internal
- `503` — Service not available

## Changes

- **2025-10-02** `ecce2daf9de6` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/kong/apis/konnect-api-beta/changes/v1/event-gateways/post.md)

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