What is the recommended way to get all users who deployed (clicked the deploy to button) to production for a given project or all projects. I have looked at https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/OctopusDeploy-Api/wiki/Deployments but the deployment api seems to omit the user, I can’t belive this is an oversight which makes me think I am going about this the wrong way…event’s api perhaps?
Hi Ben,
Thanks for getting in touch! I believe the best approach here is to use the Events API. You could use the following:
http://YOURSERVER/api/events/?regarding=PROJECT-ID&Category=DeploymentStarted
Let me know if that helps or if you have any further questions. 
Best regards,
Daniel
Thanks for your help
Couple of things…
a) using
http:///api/events/?regardingAll&Category=DeploymentStarted&Environment=Prod
doesn’t seem to restrict by Prod or DeploymentStarted as we see
DeploymentFailed categories.
{
“ItemType”: “Event”,
“IsStale”: false,
“TotalResults”: 31419,
“ItemsPerPage”: 30,
“Items”: [
{
“Id”: “Events-32173”,
“RelatedDocumentIds”: [
“Deployments-9717”,
“Projects-625”,
“Releases-7180”,
“Environments-81”,
“ServerTasks-32232”,
“Channels-466”,
“ProjectGroups-82”
],
“Category”: “DeploymentFailed”,
“UserId”: “users-system”,
“Username”: “system”,
“IdentityEstablishedWith”: “Unknown”,
“Occurred”: “2017-08-02T06:19:57.847+00:00”,
“Message”: “Deploy to test (#2) failed for OAuth - Reverse Proxy OS
Stack release 3.0.5 to test”,
“MessageHtml”: “Deploy to
test (#2) failed for OAuth -
Reverse Proxy OS Stack release 3.0.5 to test”,
“MessageReferences”: [
{
“ReferencedDocumentId”: “Deployments-9717”,
“StartIndex”: 0,
“Length”: 19
},
{
“ReferencedDocumentId”: “Projects-625”,
“StartIndex”: 32,
“Length”: 30
},
{
“ReferencedDocumentId”: “Releases-7180”,
“StartIndex”: 71,
“Length”: 5
},
{
“ReferencedDocumentId”: “Environments-81”,
“StartIndex”: 80,
“Length”: 4
}
],
“Comments”: null,
“Details”: null,
“Links”: {
“Self”: “/api/events/Events-32173”
}
},
{
“Id”: “Events-32172”,
“RelatedDocumentIds”: [
“Deployments-9717”,
“Projects-625”,
“Releases-7180”,
“Environments-81”,
“ServerTasks-32232”,
“Channels-466”,
“ProjectGroups-82”
],
“Category”: “DeploymentStarted”,
“UserId”: “users-system”,
“Username”: “system”,
“IdentityEstablishedWith”: “Unknown”,
“Occurred”: “2017-08-02T06:13:34.744+00:00”,
also, we are seeing most of these with user ‘system’ which isn’t even
listed in our users - what would that be?
Cheers,
Ben Shirley
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for getting back. Sorry my initial answer didn’t help too much! I did some more digging and looked into this a bit further. It looks like I have a better answer for you here.
I have just tested and can confirm that the following works on my server:
http:///api/events/?eventCategories=DeploymentQueued&environments=Environments-1
This will search all events for DeploymentQueued where the environment value is Environments-1
DeploymentQueued - I believe we only log the user who queues the deployment, as the actual deployment is handled by the system account running the Octopus server. So in this case, i was able to see Daniel under users, as I used my Daniel account to click deploy.
Environments-1 - Our API does not generally look at the name of thing, but instead the ID. In this case, my Test environment has an id of Environments-1
Let me know how you go with this.
Best regards,
Daniel
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