diff --git a/src/dogapi/http/events.py b/src/dogapi/http/events.py
index 5a645fa..f708466 100644
--- a/src/dogapi/http/events.py
+++ b/src/dogapi/http/events.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def get_event(self, id):
             response_formatter=lambda x: x['event'],
         )
 
-    def _event(self, title, text, date_happened=None, handle=None, priority=None, related_event_id=None, tags=None, host=None, device_name=None, aggregation_key=None, **kwargs):
+    def _event(self, title, text, date_happened=None, handle=None, priority=None, related_event_id=None, tags=None, host=None, device_name=None, aggregation_key=None, source_type_name=None,**kwargs):
         """
         Post an event.
 
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ def _event(self, title, text, date_happened=None, handle=None, priority=None, re
         :param aggregation_key: key to aggregate this event on
         :type aggregation_key: string
 
+        :param source_type_name: type of event to post the event with
+        :type source_type_name: string
+
         :return: new event id
         :rtype: integer
         """
@@ -146,6 +149,9 @@ def _event(self, title, text, date_happened=None, handle=None, priority=None, re
         if aggregation_key is not None:
             body['aggregation_key'] = aggregation_key
 
+        if source_type_name is not None:
+            body['source_type_name'] = source_type_name
+
         body.update(kwargs)
 
         return self.http_request('POST', '/events', body,
diff --git a/src/dogshell/event.py b/src/dogshell/event.py
index 4aaf721..7b23e4b 100644
--- a/src/dogshell/event.py
+++ b/src/dogshell/event.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def setup_parser(self, subparsers):
         post_parser.add_argument('--tags', help='comma separated list of tags')
         post_parser.add_argument('--host', help='related host')
         post_parser.add_argument('--device', help='related device (e.g. eth0, /dev/sda1)')
+        post_parser.add_argument('--aggregation_key', help='key to aggregate the event with')
         post_parser.add_argument('--type', help='type of event, e.g. nagios, jenkins, etc.')
         post_parser.add_argument('message', help='event message body. if unset, reads from stdin.', nargs="?")
         post_parser.set_defaults(func=self._post)
@@ -99,7 +100,9 @@ def _post(self, args):
                        args.related_event_id,
                        tags,
                        args.host,
-                       args.device)
+                       args.device,
+                       args.aggregation_key,
+                       args.type)
         report_warnings(res)
         report_errors(res)
         if format == 'pretty':