diff --git a/src/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/event_bus.py b/src/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/event_bus.py
index 28d2fa63..c4c2b0b8 100644
--- a/src/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/event_bus.py
+++ b/src/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/event_bus.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #
 import json
 
-from aiohttp.web import HTTPBadRequest, StreamResponse
+from aiohttp.web import HTTPBadRequest, Request, StreamResponse
 from aiohttp_sse import EventSourceResponse, sse_response
 from asyncio import Queue, QueueShutDown, wait_for
 from typing import ClassVar
@@ -37,12 +37,48 @@ class EventBusView(BaseView):
     event bus SSE view
 
     Attributes:
-        GET_PERMISSION(UserAccess): (class attribute) get permissions of self
+        READ_EVENTS(set[EventType]): (class attribute) events which are allowed for read-only users
     """
 
-    GET_PERMISSION: ClassVar[UserAccess] = UserAccess.Full
+    READ_EVENTS: ClassVar[set[EventType]] = {
+        EventType.PackageHeld,
+        EventType.PackageOutdated,
+        EventType.PackageRemoved,
+        EventType.PackageStatusChanged,
+        EventType.PackageUpdateFailed,
+        EventType.PackageUpdated,
+        EventType.ServiceStatusChanged,
+    }
     ROUTES = ["/api/v1/events/stream"]
 
+    @classmethod
+    async def get_permission(cls, request: Request) -> UserAccess:
+        """
+        retrieve user permission from the request
+
+        Args:
+            request(Request): request object
+
+        Returns:
+            UserAccess: extracted permission
+        """
+        if request.method.upper() not in ("GET", "HEAD"):
+            return await BaseView.get_permission(request)
+
+        permission = UserAccess.Full
+        event_filter = request.query.getall("event", []) if request.query is not None else []
+
+        if event_filter:
+            try:
+                topics = {EventType(event) for event in event_filter}
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                if topics.issubset(cls.READ_EVENTS):
+                    permission = UserAccess.Read
+
+        return permission
+
     @staticmethod
     async def _run(response: EventSourceResponse, queue: Queue[SSEvent]) -> None:
         """
@@ -66,7 +102,7 @@ class EventBusView(BaseView):
         tags=["Audit log"],
         summary="Live updates",
         description="Stream live updates via SSE",
-        permission=GET_PERMISSION,
+        permission=UserAccess.Full,
         error_400_enabled=True,
         error_404_description="Repository is unknown",
         schema=SSESchema(many=True),
diff --git a/tests/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/test_view_v1_auditlog_event_bus.py b/tests/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/test_view_v1_auditlog_event_bus.py
index ce01dd27..73eed13a 100644
--- a/tests/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/test_view_v1_auditlog_event_bus.py
+++ b/tests/ahriman/web/views/v1/auditlog/test_view_v1_auditlog_event_bus.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import pytest
 
 from aiohttp.test_utils import TestClient
 from asyncio import Queue
+from multidict import MultiDict
 from pytest_mock import MockerFixture
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
 
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ from ahriman.models.event import EventType
 from ahriman.models.package import Package
 from ahriman.models.user_access import UserAccess
 from ahriman.web.keys import WatcherKey
+from ahriman.web.views.base import BaseView
 from ahriman.web.views.v1.auditlog.event_bus import EventBusView
 
 
@@ -38,6 +40,51 @@ async def test_get_permission() -> None:
         assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == UserAccess.Full
 
 
+async def test_get_permission_build_log() -> None:
+    """
+    must return full permission for build log stream
+    """
+    request = pytest.helpers.request("", "", "GET", params=MultiDict(event=EventType.BuildLog))
+    assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == UserAccess.Full
+
+
+async def test_get_permission_build_log_with_read_events() -> None:
+    """
+    must return full permission for mixed build log and read event stream
+    """
+    request = pytest.helpers.request("", "", "GET", params=MultiDict([
+        ("event", EventType.BuildLog),
+        ("event", EventType.PackageUpdated),
+    ]))
+    assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == UserAccess.Full
+
+
+async def test_get_permission_invalid_event() -> None:
+    """
+    must return full permission for invalid event type
+    """
+    request = pytest.helpers.request("", "", "GET", params=MultiDict(event="invalid"))
+    assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == UserAccess.Full
+
+
+async def test_get_permission_post() -> None:
+    """
+    must use default permission for non-get requests
+    """
+    request = pytest.helpers.request("", "", "POST", params=MultiDict(event=EventType.PackageUpdated))
+    assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == await BaseView.get_permission(request)
+
+
+async def test_get_permission_read_events() -> None:
+    """
+    must return read permission for package and status streams
+    """
+    request = pytest.helpers.request("", "", "GET", params=MultiDict(
+        ("event", event_type) for event_type in EventBusView.READ_EVENTS
+    ))
+    assert await EventBusView.get_permission(request) == UserAccess.Read
+
+
 def test_routes() -> None:
     """
     must return correct routes