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Eventarc supports applying a path pattern when filtering. The path pattern syntax lets you define an expression that matches events. This lets you control the granularity of the Eventarc trigger you are creating, and to capture and act on certain events. For example, you can create a trigger that applies to a single event, such as a change to a specific file, or you can extend the scope of the pattern and create a trigger that applies more broadly.
Apply a path patternYou can apply a path pattern to filter events when you create a trigger using the Eventarc Google Cloud console page or by running a gcloud
command.
For example, you can apply a path pattern when filtering on resource names or database instances (a single instance or a path).
Specifying a resource name path pattern applies when creating a trigger for Cloud Audit Logs events and to resourceName
values. A resource name indicates the resource being audited through an audit log. Resource names are organized hierarchically using identifiers made up of the ID of the resource itself and the IDs of any parent resources, all separated by forward slashes, like this: /projects/project-1/datasets/dataset-id
. The filtering done by Eventarc matches patterns based on the values of these identifiers. For more information, in this document, see Resource name format.
Specifying a database instance path pattern applies when creating a trigger for Firebase Realtime Database events and to instance
or ref
values. A database instance indicates a Firebase Realtime Database instance. You can apply a path pattern to the instance name of the database instance, or a document path for which you want to receive events when data is created, updated, or deleted in that path, or any of its children.
Specifying a resource ID path pattern applies when creating a trigger for Cloud IoT events and to registry
and device
values. You can apply a path pattern to filter changes in registries, and devices in a registry, with wildcard matching.
For details, see the instructions to create a trigger for a specific provider, event type, and destination.
Identify if you can apply a path patternTo confirm if you can apply a path pattern to an attribute of an event from a provider, describe the event provider. For example:
gcloud eventarc providers describe cloudaudit.googleapis.com --location=us-central1
The output is similar to the following and a pathPatternSupported
value of true
indicates that you can apply a path pattern:
displayName: Cloud Audit Logs eventTypes: - description: An audit log is created that matches the trigger's filter criteria. filteringAttributes: - attribute: methodName description: The identifier of the service's operation. required: true - attribute: resourceName description: The complete path to a resource. Used to filter events for a specific resource. pathPatternSupported: true - attribute: serviceName description: The identifier of the Google Cloud service. required: true - attribute: type required: true type: google.cloud.audit.log.v1.written name: projects/project-name/locations/us-central1/providers/cloudaudit.googleapis.com
Or, for example:
gcloud eventarc providers describe firebasedatabase.googleapis.com --location=us-central1
Where the output is similar to the following:
displayName: Firebase Realtime Database eventTypes: - description: New data has been created in the database. filteringAttributes: - attribute: instance description: A single database instance. pathPatternSupported: true required: true - attribute: ref description: Pattern to match for the database instance. pathPatternSupported: true required: true - attribute: type required: true type: google.firebase.database.ref.v1.created [...]
For more information, see gcloud eventarc providers describe
.
The path pattern syntax is defined as follows:
Pattern/?
Segment
(/
Segment
)*
Segment CaptureGroup
|
Expression
CaptureGroup {
ID
(=
Expression
)? }
Expression Wildcard
|
MultiSegmentWildcard
|
NameSegment
NameSegment (
Character
*
Wildcard
?
Character
*)
ID [a-zA-Z0-9_]+
Wildcard *
MultiSegmentWildcard **
Character1 [\\w\\s\\t~@#$%&.,?:;+='[]()-]
Legend: ?
zero or one *
zero or more +
one or more |
OR 1
Only listed ASCII characters are supported. Regular expression matching is not supported. Supported metacharacters:
\w
refers to a word; also represented as [a-zA-Z0-9_]
\t
refers to a tab\s
refers to a whitespace characterAn expression can be one of the following segment types and cannot be empty:
Wildcard
defined as *
matches zero or more characters in the pattern.MultiSegmentWildcard
defined as **
matches zero or more segments in the pattern.NameSegment
consists of zero or one *
and other characters. This combination lets you filter by prefix, suffix, or file extension; for example, file-*.txt
.Note that a path can contain many single segment wildcards, but only one multiple segment wildcard. For example, the following path is invalid: /projects/**/buckets/**
.
Resource names can contain location identifiers. For example:
/projects/$PROJECT_ID/locations/$REGION/triggers/my-trigger
However, path pattern matching is constrained by resource regionality. For example, for Cloud Audit Logs triggers, location wildcards only match triggers from the Cloud Audit Logs region, or global triggers.
Capture groupsA CaptureGroup
lets you capture the content of an expression. You do this by assigning the value to a variable name in braces; for example, buckets/{path=**}/files/{filename=file-*.txt}
. A single segment wildcard can omit =*
in a capture group; for example, /projects/_/buckets/{bucket}/objects/file.*
The following table provides examples of full resource names for commonly used Google Cloud services. It is not a complete list. To learn more about how full resource names are formatted, see the Resource names section of the API design guide.
Resource type Full resource name format BigQuery datasets//bigquery.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/datasets/DATASET_ID
Cloud Billing accounts //cloudbilling.googleapis.com/billingAccounts/BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID
Cloud Firestore documents1 //firestore.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/databases/DATABASE_ID/documents/DOCUMENT
Cloud Run services //run.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION_ID/services/SERVICE_ID
Cloud SQL instances //sqladmin.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/instances/INSTANCE_ID
Cloud Storage buckets2 //storage.googleapis.com/projects/_/buckets/BUCKET_ID
Cloud Storage objects2, 3 //storage.googleapis.com/projects/_/buckets/BUCKET_ID/objects/OBJECT_ID
Compute Engine instances //compute.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/ZONE/instances/INSTANCE_ID
Compute Engine networks //compute.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/global/networks/NETWORK
Compute Engine subnetworks //compute.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/regions/REGION/subnetworks/SUBNETWORK
Google Kubernetes Engine clusters //container.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/clusters/CLUSTER_ID
Identity-Aware Proxy App Engine app service //iap.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_NUMBER/iap_web/appengine-PROJECT_ID/services/APP_SERVICE_ID
IAP Compute Engine backend service //iap.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_NUMBER/iap_web/compute/services/BACKEND_SERVICE_ID_OR_NAME
Pub/Sub topics //pubsub.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_ID
Resource Manager organizations //cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/organizations/ORGANIZATION_NUMBER
Resource Manager folders //cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/folders/FOLDER_NUMBER
Resource Manager projects //cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/projects/PROJECT_ID
1 For Cloud Firestore, don't specify a leading slash when creating a trigger (see examples). For more information, see Cloud Firestore data model.
2 For Cloud Storage, resource names contain an underscore (_
) rather than a project ID. You cannot replace the underscore with a project ID, project name, or project number.
3 For Cloud Storage, use the entire object name, including forward slashes. These characters are part of the object name, not path separators.
ExamplesThe following examples demonstrate how you can and can't use the syntax.
Valid patterns Pattern Description/projects/project-1/datasets/dataset-1
Specific resource name. /projects/project-1/regions/region-1/subnetworks/*
Matches any subnetwork in project-1
and region-1
. /projects/_/buckets/bucket-1/objects/*.txt
Matches all TXT files in the bucket. /projects/_/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file-*.txt
Matches all TXT files with prefix file-
in the bucket. /projects/project-1/serviceAccounts/service-account-email-1/keys/**
Matches any key for a specific service account email. /projects/_/**/file-*.txt
Matches any TXT file with prefix file-
for all buckets. /projects/_/buckets/bucket-*/objects/file-*.txt
Matches all TXT files with prefix file-
for any bucket with prefix bucket-
. /projects/_/buckets/{bucket}/objects/file.*
/projects/_/buckets/{bucket=*}/objects/file.*
/projects/_/buckets/*/objects/{filename=file.*}
Three different representations of the same filter. Matches any bucket with a file named file
of any type. The first two examples also capture the bucket and the last example captures the filename. /projects/project-1/zones/zone-1/instances/**
Matches anything in project-1
and zone-1
. /projects/*/zones/zone-1/instances/**
Matches anything in zone-1
in any project. Invalid patterns Pattern Description /projects/_/buckets/bucket-1/objects/
Empty expression. /projects//buckets/bucket-1/objects/file1.txt
Empty expression. /projects/_/buckets/bucket**/objects/file1.txt
Expression can contain only one *
. /projects/_/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file-*.*
Expression can contain only one *
. /projects/**/buckets/**
Resource path can contain only one **
. /projects/_/buckets/{=*}/objects/file1.txt
Missing ID in segment. /projects/_/buckets/{bucket=}/objects/file1.txt
Empty expression inside a capture group. /projects/_/buckets/{bucket/objects/file1.txt
Capture group not closed. Pattern matching Pattern Resource Matches? /buckets/bucket-1/objects/file1.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file1.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file2.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/*
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file3.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file4.jpg
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/files/file4.jpg
/buckets/bucket-1/objects
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/*.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file5.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file6.jpg
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file-*.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file-777.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file-.txt
/buckets/bucket-1/objects/file.txt
/projects/_/**/{filename=file-*.txt}
/projects/_/objects/object-1/files/file-9.txt
/projects/_/{ob}jects/**/-+=*/file-9.txt
/projects/_/file-10.txt
/projects/_/files-1/file-1.txt/files-2/file-2.txt
/projects/_//file-1234.txt
/projects/_/files/file-5.txt/file.txt
{collection=[clients,users]}/id
users/id
clients/id
[clients,users]/id
{collection=clients,users}/id
users/id
clients/id
clients,users/id
all users/{id=.*_ +1@gmail.com}
all-users/aa_ +1@gmail.com
all users/bb_+1@gmail.com
all users/cc +1@gmail.com
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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.
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