Events

The Events feature provides a comprehensive activity log of all monitoring events triggered by your watched extensions. View real-time notifications, track changes over time, and investigate what happened when extensions you’re monitoring experience updates, ownership changes, security verdict shifts, or visibility modifications. Each event includes detailed information about what changed and when.

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Features

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Event Filtering

Find specific events with multiple filter options:

• Event Type Filter
  • Filter by event category
  • Options: All, Version, Ownership, Verdict, Visibility
  • Dropdown selection
  • Matches watch items configuration
• Extension ID Filter
  • Search by exact extension ID
  • Text input field
  • Case-sensitive matching
  • Useful for tracking specific extensions
• Destination Filter
  • Filter by notification destination
  • Shows events sent to specific channels
  • Text input for destination name
  • Track delivery to different endpoints
• Filter Actions
  • Search Button - Apply current filters
  • Clear Button - Reset all filters to defaults
  • Filters preserved in URL
  • Share filtered views via URL

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Events Table

Comprehensive event display with sortable columns:

• Time
  • Click to toggle between relative and absolute time
  • Relative: “2 hours ago”, “3 days ago” (default)
  • Absolute: Full UTC timestamp “2024-01-15T14:30:00Z”
  • Clock icon indicates toggle functionality
• Event
  • Event type identifier
  • Short labels: version, ownership, verdict, visibility, manifest
• Extension
  • Extension name with logo
  • Clickable link to full analysis
  • Platform indicator icon
  • Opens search page in current tab
• Destination Column
  • Where notification was sent
  • Destination name display
  • Confirms delivery routing
• Details
  • JSON preview of event data
  • Click to open full details modal
  • Formatted JSON display
  • Shows what changed
  • Hover highlights for interaction

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Event Details Modal

Deep dive into event information:

• Tabbed Interface
  • Table View - Human-readable format
  • Data View - Raw JSON format
  • Toggle between views
• Table View
  • Event type and timestamp header
  • Key-value pairs in table format
  • Rule and destination metadata included
• Data View
  • Complete raw JSON
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Scrollable for large payloads
• Event Structure
  • Event Type - What kind of change occurred
  • Timestamp - When the event was detected
  • Event Data - Details of the change
    • Extension ID
    • Platform
    • Old value (before)
    • New value (after)
    • Additional context fields
  • Metadata - System information
    • Rule ID that triggered event
    • Organization name
    • Destination where sent

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Event Types

Events are triggered based on watch item configuration:

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Version Events

• Trigger: New extension version released
• Details Include:
  • Old version number
  • New version number
  • Version name (if available)
  • Update date
  • Platform

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Ownership Events

• Trigger: Extension publisher/owner changes
• Details Include:
  • Previous owner ID
  • New owner ID
  • Previous owner name
  • New owner name
  • Change date

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Verdict Events

• Trigger: Security verdict changes
• Details Include:
  • Previous verdict (clean, suspicious, malicious)
  • New verdict
  • Verdict date
  • References (if available)
  • Analysis version

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Visibility Events

• Trigger: Marketplace visibility changes
• Details Include:
  • Previous status (active/inactive, public/unlisted)
  • New status
  • Change date
  • Visibility type

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Manifest Events

• Trigger: The extension manifest changes
• Details Include:
  • Difference between the two manifest files
  • Identification of new and removed permissions and host permissions
  • Includes added and removed lines to the file

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Event Details Explained

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Common Fields

• extension_id - Unique identifier for extension
• platform - Marketplace platform
• timestamp - When event was detected (ISO 8601 format)
• event_type - Category of change (version/ownership/verdict/visibility)

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Version Event Fields

• old_version - Previous version number
• new_version - New version number
• version_name - Display name (optional)
• updated_date - When update was published

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Ownership Event Fields

• old_owner - Previous owner ID
• new_owner - New owner ID
• old_owner_name - Previous owner display name
• new_owner_name - New owner display name

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Verdict Event Fields

• old_verdict - Previous security verdict
• new_verdict - New security verdict
• verdict_date - When verdict was assigned
• references - Supporting documentation URLs

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Visibility Event Fields

• old_active - Previous active status
• new_active - New active status
• old_visibility - Previous visibility setting
• new_visibility - New visibility setting

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Metadata Fields

• rule - Watch rule ID that triggered event
• organization - Organization name
• destination - Where notification was sent
• notified_at - When notification was dispatched