Events
Keycloak provides an Events SPI that makes it possible to register listeners for user related events, for example
user logins. There are two interfaces that can be implemented, the first is a pure listener, the second is a events
store which listens for events, but is also required to store events. An events store provides a way for the admin
and account management consoles to view events.
Event types
Login events:
Login - A user has logged in
Register - A user has registered
Logout - A user has logged out
Code to Token - An application/client has exchanged a code for a token
Refresh Token - An application/client has refreshed a token
Account events:
Social Link - An account has been linked to a social provider
Remove Social Link - A social provider has been removed from an account
Update Email - The email address for an account has changed
Update Profile - The profile for an account has changed
Send Password Reset - A password reset email has been sent
Update Password - The password for an account has changed
Update TOTP - The TOTP settings for an account has changed
Remove TOTP - TOTP has been removed from an account
Send Verify Email - A email verification email has been sent
Verify Email - The email address for an account has been verified
For all events there is a corresponding error event.
Event Listener
Keycloak comes with an Email Event Listener and a JBoss Logging Event Listener. The Email Event Listener
sends an email to the users account when an event occurs. The JBoss Logging Event Listener writes to a log
file when an events occurs.
The Email Event Listener only supports the following events at the moment:
Login Error
Update Password
Update TOTP
Remove TOTP
You can exclude one or more events by editing standalone/configuration/keycloak-server.json
and adding for example:
Event Store
Event Store listen for events and is expected to persist the events to make it possible to query for them
later. This is used by the admin console and account management to view events. Keycloak includes providers
to persist events to JPA and Mongo.
You can specify events to include or exclude by editing standalone/configuration/keycloak-server.json,
and adding for example:
Configure Events Settings for Realm
To enable persisting of events for a realm you first need to make sure you have a event store provider registered for Keycloak.
By default the JPA event store provider is registered. Once you've done that open the admin console, select the
realm you're configuring, select Events. Then click on Config.
You can enable storing events for your realm by toggling Save Events to ON. You can also set
an expiration on events. This will periodically delete events from the database that are older than the specified
time.
To configure listeners for a realm on the same page as above add one or more event listeners to the
Listeners select box. This will allow you to enable any registered event listeners with the
realm.