1. Event-Driven Infrastructure
2. Watching Events
3. Custom Events
4. Beacons
5. Event Reactor

Custom Events

In addition to the built-in events, you can enable some additional events in the Salt system, as well as generate your own events.

Presence Events

Enabling presence events causes the master to periodically look for actively connected minions. Presence events are fired on the event bus on a regular interval with a list of connected minions, as well as events with lists of newly connected or disconnected minions.

presence_events: True

Salt State Events

Enabling Salt state events causes the Salt minion to send progress events as each function in a Salt state run completes execution.

state_events: True

Fire an event when a state completes

If you have a long configuration job that includes several Salt states, you can fire an event when each Salt state completes by adding the fire_event argument:

nano installed:
  pkg.installed:
    - name: nano
    - fire_event: True

Or if you’d rather, you can replace True with a custom event string that will be appended to the event that is triggered:

nano installed:
  pkg.installed:
    - name: nano
    - fire_event: nano/installed

Fire a custom event

You can also trigger events directly from the command line with a custom event tag and event data. Try running the following command from one of your Salt minions:

salt-call event.send /my/test/event '{"data": "my event test"}'

This results in an event similar to the following:

/my/test/event  {
    "_stamp": "2016-02-05T18:24:47.001310",
    "cmd": "_minion_event",
    "data": {
        "__pub_fun": "event.send",
        "__pub_jid": "20160205182446924651",
        "__pub_pid": 1933,
        "__pub_tgt": "salt-call",
        "data": "my event test"
    },
    "id": "minion1",
    "tag": "/my/test/event"
}

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