docs: def create_event(self, timestamp, event_type, hostname, fields, tags=None):
          """Factory method called by the parsers
          """
          # Agent6 expects a specific set of fields, so we need to place all
          # extra fields in the msg_title and let the Datadog backend separate them
          # Any remaining fields that aren't a part of the datadog-agent payload
          # specification will be dropped.
          event_payload = fields._asdict()
  
          msg_text = {
              'event_type': event_payload.pop('event_type', None),
              'event_soft_hard': event_payload.pop('event_soft_hard', None),
              'check_name': event_payload.pop('check_name', None),
              'event_state': event_payload.pop('event_state', None),
              'payload': event_payload.pop('payload', None),
              'ack_author': event_payload.pop('ack_author', None),
          }
  
          msg_text = json.dumps(msg_text)
          self.log.info("Nagios Event pack: {}".format(msg_text))
  
          event_payload.update(
              {
                  'timestamp': timestamp,
                  'event_type': event_type,
                  'msg_text': msg_text,
                  'source_type_name': SOURCE_TYPE_NAME,
                  'tags': tags,
              }
          )
  
          # if host is localhost, turn that into the internal host name
          host = event_payload.get('host', None)
          if host == "localhost":
              event_payload["host"] = hostname
          return event_payload