---
title: "Create Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster"
method: POST
path: "/v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies#ModifyHeaders"
tags: ["Event Gateway Virtual Cluster Consume Policies"]
---

# Create Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster

`POST /v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies#ModifyHeaders`

Creates a new consume policy associated with the specified Event Gateway virtual cluster.

## Query parameters

- `before` string, uuid
- `after` string, uuid

## Request body

- EventGatewayModifyHeadersPolicyCreate — A policy that modifies headers for requests.
  - `type` 'modify_headers', required — The type name of the policy.
  - `name` string — A unique user-defined name of the policy.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the policy.
  - `enabled` boolean — Whether the policy is enabled.
  - `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 "_".
  - `config` object, required — The configuration of the modify headers policy.
    - `actions` EventGatewayModifyHeaderAction[], nullable — Actions are run in sequential order and act on individual headers.
      - union — An action that modifies a header.
        - EventGatewayModifyHeaderRemoveAction — An action that removes a header by key.
          - `op` 'remove', required
          - `key` string, required — The key of the header to remove.
        - EventGatewayModifyHeaderSetAction — An action that sets a header key and value.
          - `op` 'set', required
          - `key` string, required — The key of the header to set.
          - `value` string, required — The value of the header to set.
  - `condition` string — A string containing the boolean expression that determines whether the policy is applied. When the policy is applied as a child policy of schema_validation, the expression can also reference `record.value` fields.
  - `parent_policy_id` string, uuid — The unique identifier of the parent schema validation policy, if any.

## Response `201`

Created

- EventGatewayPolicy — A policy associated with an Event Gateway.
  - `type` string, required — The type name of the policy.
  - `name` string — A unique user-defined name of the policy.
  - `description` string — A human-readable description of the policy.
  - `enabled` boolean — Whether the policy is enabled.
  - `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 "_".
  - `id` string, uuid, required — The unique identifier of the policy.
  - `config` object, nullable — The configuration of the policy.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity creation date.
  - `parent_policy_id` string, uuid, nullable — The unique identifier of the parent policy, if any.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required — An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity update date.
  - `condition` string — A string containing the boolean expression that determines whether the policy is applied.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden

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