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<section id="events">
<title>Events</title>
<para>An event is essentially a significant or meaningful change in the state of both virtual and
physical resources associated with a cloud environment. Events are used by monitoring systems,
usage and billing systems, or any other event-driven workflow systems to discern a pattern and
make the right business decision. In &PRODUCT; an event could be a state change of virtual or
physical resources, an action performed by an user (action events), or policy based events
(alerts).</para>
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