vault/website/content/docs/commands/events.mdx
Christopher Swenson ae9ec39d44
events: Now enterprise-only (#25640)
This removes the WebSockets endpoint for events
(which will be moved to the Enterprise repo) and
disables tests that rely on it unless they are
running in Enterprise.

It also updates documentation to document that
events are only available in Vault Enterprise.
2024-02-26 20:19:35 +00:00

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---
layout: docs
page_title: events - Command
description: |-
The "events" command interacts with the Vault events notifications subsystem.
---
# events
<EnterpriseAlert product="vault" />
Use the `events` command to get a real-time display of
[event notifications](/vault/docs/concepts/events) generated by Vault and to subscribe to Vault
event notifications. Note that the `events subscribe` runs indefinitly and will not exit on
its own unless it encounters an unexpected error. Similar to `tail -f` in the
Unix world, you must terminate the process from the command line to end the
`events` command.
Specify the desired event types (also called "topics") as a glob pattern. To
match against multiple event types, use `*` as a wildcard. The command returns
serialized JSON objects in the default protobuf JSON serialization format with
one line per event received.
## Examples
Subscribe to all event notifications:
```shell-session
$ vault events subscribe '*'
```
Subscribe to all KV event notifications:
```shell-session
$ vault events subscribe 'kv*'
```
Subscribe to all `kv-v2/data-write` event notifications:
```shell-session
$ vault events subscribe kv-v2/data-write
```
Subscribe to all KV event notifications in the current and `ns1` namespaces for the secret `secret/data/foo` that do not involve writing data:
```shell-session
$ vault events subscribe -namespaces=ns1 -filter='data_path == secret/data/foo and operation != "data-write"' 'kv*'
```
## Usage
`events subscribe` supports the following flags in addition to the [standard set of
flags](/vault/docs/commands) included on all commands.
### Options
- `-timeout`: `(duration: "")` - close the WebSocket automatically after the
specified duration.
- `-namespaces` `(string)` - Additional **child** namespaces for the
subscription. Repeat the flag to add additional namespace patterns to the
subscription request. Vault automatically prepends the issuing namespace for
the request to the provided namespace. For example, if you include
`-namespaces=ns2` on a request made in the `ns1` namespace, Vault will attempt
to subscribe you to event notifications under the `ns1/ns2` and `ns1` namespaces. You can
use the `*` character to include wildcards in the namespace pattern. By
default, Vault will only subscribe to event notifications in the requesting namespace.
<Note>
To subscribe to event notifications across multiple namespaces, you must provide a root
token or a token associated with appropriate policies across all the targeted
namespaces. Refer to
the <a href="/vault/tutorials/enterprise/namespaces">Secure multi-tenancy with
namespaces</a>tutorial for configuring your Vault instance appropriately.
</Note>
- `-filter` `(string: "")` - Filter expression used to select event notifications to be sent
through the WebSocket.
Refer to the [Filter expressions](/vault/docs/concepts/filtering) guide for a complete
list of filtering options and an explanation on how Vault evaluates filter expressions.
The following values are available in the filter expression:
- `event_type`: the event type, e.g., `kv-v2/data-write`.
- `operation`: the operation name that caused the event notification, e.g., `write`.
- `source_plugin_mount`: the mount of the plugin that produced the event notification,
e.g., `secret/`
- `data_path`: the API path that can be used to access the data of the secret related to the event notification, e.g., `secret/data/foo`
- `namespace`: the path of the namespace that created the event notification, e.g., `ns1/`
The filter string is empty by default. Unfiltered subscription requests match to
all event notifications that the requestor has access to for the target event type. When the
filter string is not empty, Vault applies the filter conditions after the policy
checks to narrow the event notifications provided in the response.
Filters can be straightforward path matches like
`data_path == secret/data/foo`, which specifies that Vault should pass
return event notifications that refer to the `secret/data/foo` secret to the WebSocket.
Or more complex statements that exclude specific operations. For example:
```
data_path == secret/data/foo and operation != write
```