Events in Tekton Triggers

Triggers event controller emits Kubernetes events when EventListener get request to process Triggers. This allows you to monitor and react to what’s happening during execution by retrieving those events using the kubectl get events command.

Events in EventListener

EventListener emit events for the following Reasons:

  • Started: emitted the first time when the EventListener received request.
  • Succeeded: emitted when eventlistener received request and process all triggers request.
  • Failed: emitted if triggers failed to process the request.

Events format

Resource Event Event Type
EventListener Started dev.tekton.event.triggers.started.v1
EventListener Succeed dev.tekton.event.triggers.successful.v1
EventListener Failed dev.tekton.event.triggers.failed.v1

##Note By default Kubernetes events are disabled for EventListener.

To enable Kubernetes events for each EventListener need to add below annotation

  annotations:
    enable-eventlistener-events: "true"

ex:

apiVersion: triggers.tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: EventListener
metadata:
  name: github-listener
  annotations:
    enable-eventlistener-events: "true"
spec:
---

To view the events execute below command

kubectl get events