NAME

gerrit stream-events - Monitor events occurring in real time

SYNOPSIS

'ssh' -p <port> <host> 'gerrit stream-events'

DESCRIPTION

Provides a portal into the major events occurring on the server, outputting activity data in real-time to the client. Events are filtered by the caller’s access permissions, ensuring the caller only receives events for changes they can view on the web, or in the project repository.

Event output is in JSON, one event per line.

ACCESS

Caller must be a member of the privileged 'Administrators' group, or have been granted the 'Stream Events' global capability.

SCRIPTING

This command is intended to be used in scripts.

EXAMPLES

$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com gerrit stream-events
{"type":"comment-added",change:{"project":"tools/gerrit", ...}, ...}
{"type":"comment-added",change:{"project":"tools/gerrit", ...}, ...}

SCHEMA

The JSON messages consist of nested objects referencing the change, patchSet, account involved, and other attributes as appropriate.

Note that any field may be missing in the JSON messages, so consumers of this JSON stream should deal with that appropriately.

EVENTS

Change Abandoned

Sent when a change has been abandoned.

type

"change-abandoned"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

abandoner

account attribute

reason

Reason for abandoning the change.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Change Merged

Sent when a change has been merged into the git repository.

type

"change-merged"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

submitter

account attribute

newRev

The resulting revision of the merge.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Change Restored

Sent when an abandoned change has been restored.

type

"change-restored"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

restorer

account attribute

reason

Reason for restoring the change.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Comment Added

Sent when a review comment has been posted on a change.

type

"comment-added"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

author

account attribute

approvals

All approval attributes granted.

comment

Review comment cover message.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Draft Published

Sent when a draft change has been published.

type

"draft-published"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

uploader

account attribute

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Dropped Output

Sent to notify a client that events have been dropped.

type

"dropped-output"

Hashtags Changed

Sent when the hashtags have been added to or removed from a change.

type

"hashtags-changed"

change

change attribute

editor

account attribute

added

List of hashtags added to the change

removed

List of hashtags removed from the change

hashtags

List of hashtags on the change after tags were added or removed

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Merge Failed

Sent when a change has failed to be merged into the git repository.

type

"merge-failed"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

submitter

account attribute

reason

Reason that the merge failed.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Patchset Created

Sent when a new change has been uploaded, or a new patch set has been uploaded to an existing change.

Note that this event is also sent for changes or patch sets uploaded as draft, but is only visible to the change owner, any existing reviewers, and users who belong to a group that is granted the View Drafts capability.

type

"patchset-created"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

uploader

account attribute

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Ref Updated

Sent when a reference is updated in a git repository.

type

"ref-updated"

submitter

account attribute

refUpdate

refUpdate attribute

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Reviewer Added

Sent when a reviewer is added to a change.

type

"reviewer-added"

change

change attribute

patchSet

patchSet attribute

reviewer

account attribute

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

Topic Changed

Sent when the topic of a change has been changed.

type

"topic-changed"

change

change attribute

changer

account attribute

oldTopic

Topic name before it was changed.

eventCreatedOn

Time in seconds since the UNIX epoch when this event was created.

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