diff --git a/doc/notification_samples/common_payloads/ServerGroupPayload.json b/doc/notification_samples/common_payloads/ServerGroupPayload.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf30d633691c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/notification_samples/common_payloads/ServerGroupPayload.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+    "nova_object.version": "1.0",
+    "nova_object.namespace": "nova",
+    "nova_object.name": "ServerGroupPayload",
+    "nova_object.data": {
+        "uuid": "788608ec-ebdc-45c5-bc7f-e5f24ab92c80",
+        "name": "test-server-group",
+        "project_id": "6f70656e737461636b20342065766572",
+        "user_id": "fake",
+        "policies": [
+          "anti-affinity"
+        ],
+        "members": [],
+        "hosts": null
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/notification_samples/server_group-create.json b/doc/notification_samples/server_group-create.json
index 318713c2ec08..b2ba97278a75 100644
--- a/doc/notification_samples/server_group-create.json
+++ b/doc/notification_samples/server_group-create.json
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
 {
     "priority": "INFO",
-    "payload": {
-        "nova_object.version": "1.0",
-        "nova_object.namespace": "nova",
-        "nova_object.name": "ServerGroupPayload",
-        "nova_object.data": {
-            "uuid": "788608ec-ebdc-45c5-bc7f-e5f24ab92c80",
-            "name": "test-server-group",
-            "project_id": "6f70656e737461636b20342065766572",
-            "user_id": "fake",
-            "policies": ["anti-affinity"],
-            "members": [],
-            "hosts": null
-        }
-    },
+    "payload": {"$ref": "common_payloads/ServerGroupPayload.json#"},
     "event_type": "server_group.create",
     "publisher_id": "nova-api:fake-mini"
 }
diff --git a/doc/notification_samples/server_group-delete.json b/doc/notification_samples/server_group-delete.json
index c6bfee800fe1..893e3344d1c5 100644
--- a/doc/notification_samples/server_group-delete.json
+++ b/doc/notification_samples/server_group-delete.json
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
 {
     "priority": "INFO",
-    "payload": {
-        "nova_object.version": "1.0",
-        "nova_object.namespace": "nova",
-        "nova_object.name": "ServerGroupPayload",
-        "nova_object.data": {
-            "uuid": "788608ec-ebdc-45c5-bc7f-e5f24ab92c80",
-            "name": "test-server-group",
-            "project_id": "6f70656e737461636b20342065766572",
-            "user_id": "fake",
-            "policies": ["anti-affinity"],
-            "members": [],
-            "hosts": null
-        }
-    },
+    "payload": {"$ref": "common_payloads/ServerGroupPayload.json#"},
     "event_type": "server_group.delete",
     "publisher_id": "nova-api:fake-mini"
 }