diff --git a/src/cdk/v2/destinations/algolia/procWorkflow.yaml b/src/cdk/v2/destinations/algolia/procWorkflow.yaml
index bbef23c603..765431d396 100644
--- a/src/cdk/v2/destinations/algolia/procWorkflow.yaml
+++ b/src/cdk/v2/destinations/algolia/procWorkflow.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ steps:
       $.assert(.message.type === {{$.EventType.TRACK}}, 
         "message type " + .message.type + " not supported")
       $.assert(.message.event, "event is required for track call")
+      $.assert(typeof .message.event === "string", "event name should be a string")
 
   - name: preparePayload
     template: |
diff --git a/test/__tests__/data/algolia_input.json b/test/__tests__/data/algolia_input.json
index ce4afa3657..67216fc871 100644
--- a/test/__tests__/data/algolia_input.json
+++ b/test/__tests__/data/algolia_input.json
@@ -732,5 +732,73 @@
         ]
       }
     }
+  },
+  {
+    "message": {
+      "channel": "web",
+      "context": {
+        "app": {
+          "build": "1.0.0",
+          "name": "RudderLabs JavaScript SDK",
+          "namespace": "com.rudderlabs.javascript",
+          "version": "1.0.0"
+        },
+        "traits": {
+          "email": "testone@gmail.com",
+          "firstName": "test",
+          "lastName": "one"
+        },
+        "library": {
+          "name": "RudderLabs JavaScript SDK",
+          "version": "1.0.0"
+        },
+        "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36",
+        "locale": "en-US",
+        "ip": "0.0.0.0",
+        "os": {
+          "name": "",
+          "version": ""
+        },
+        "screen": {
+          "density": 2
+        },
+        "page": {
+          "path": "/destinations/ometria",
+          "referrer": "",
+          "search": "",
+          "title": "",
+          "url": "https://docs.rudderstack.com/destinations/ometria",
+          "category": "destination",
+          "initial_referrer": "https://docs.rudderstack.com",
+          "initial_referring_domain": "docs.rudderstack.com"
+        }
+      },
+      "type": "track",
+      "messageId": "84e26acc-56a5-4835-8233-591137fca468",
+      "session_id": "3049dc4c-5a95-4ccd-a3e7-d74a7e411f22",
+      "originalTimestamp": "2019-10-14T09:03:17.562Z",
+      "anonymousId": "123456",
+      "event": ["abc", "def"],
+      "userId": "testuserId1",
+      "properties": {
+        "filters": ["field1:hello", "val1:val2"]
+      },
+      "integrations": {
+        "All": true
+      },
+      "sentAt": "2019-10-14T09:03:22.563Z"
+    },
+    "destination": {
+      "Config": {
+        "apiKey": "34d8efa09c5b048bbacc6af157f2e687",
+        "applicationId": "O2YARRI15I",
+        "eventTypeSettings": [
+          {
+            "from": "product clicked",
+            "to": "cLick "
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
   }
 ]
diff --git a/test/__tests__/data/algolia_output.json b/test/__tests__/data/algolia_output.json
index a4cb9b5640..ed02c274e1 100644
--- a/test/__tests__/data/algolia_output.json
+++ b/test/__tests__/data/algolia_output.json
@@ -113,5 +113,9 @@
   {
     "statusCode": "400",
     "message": "Missing required value from \"properties.index\""
+  },
+  {
+    "statusCode": "400",
+    "message": "event name should be a string"
   }
 ]