# Generate scheduled events

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See the changelog of the **Tick** Listener type [here](/listeners/tick-listener.md).
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Note that this Listener is only available in certain Tenants. [Get in touch with us](https://www.onum.com) if you don't see it and want to access it.
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## Overview

The **Tick** Listener allows you to emit events on a defined schedule.

## Prerequisites

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In order to use this Listener, you must activate the environment variable in your distributor using docker compose (`TICK_GENERATOR_ENABLED`)
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## Onum Setup

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Log in to your Onum tenant and click **Listeners > New listener**.
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Double-click the **Tick** Listener.
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Enter a **Name** for the new Listener. Optionally, add a **Description** and some **Tags** to identify the Listener.
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Add as many tick events as required to emit.

* Select the **Schedule Type Interval**<mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark>  type to use for the intervals between sending events.
* Enter the **Interval value**<mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark> number of seconds/minutes/hours to wait for.
* The **Interval Unit**<mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark> the number corresponds to: seconds, minutes, hours.
* Enter the **Number of events**<mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark>  to emit.
* Enter what the **Event body**<mark style="color:red;">**\***</mark> will contain, e.g. the fields.
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Finally, click **Create labels**. Optionally, you can set labels to be used for internal Onum routing of data. By default, data will be set as **Unlabeled**. Click **Create listener** when you're done.

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Learn more about labels in [this article](/the-workspace/listeners/labels.md).
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Click **Create listener** when you're done.


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