diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index 461fb6d30c4..29796184106 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ steps:
   - vllm/core/
   - tests/distributed/test_utils
   - tests/distributed/test_pynccl
+  - tests/distributed/test_events
   - tests/spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp4
   - tests/compile/test_basic_correctness
   - examples/offline_inference/rlhf.py
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_utils.py
   - pytest -v -s compile/test_basic_correctness.py
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pynccl.py
+  - pytest -v -s distributed/test_events.py
   - pytest -v -s spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp4.py
   # TODO: create a dedicated test section for multi-GPU example tests
   # when we have multiple distributed example tests
diff --git a/tests/distributed/test_events.py b/tests/distributed/test_events.py
index 15bcfdb8555..8de1aa20eab 100644
--- a/tests/distributed/test_events.py
+++ b/tests/distributed/test_events.py
@@ -119,13 +119,12 @@ def test_topic_filtering(publisher_config):
     """
     publisher_config.replay_endpoint = None
 
-    cfg = publisher_config.model_copy()
-    cfg.topic = "foo"
-    pub = EventPublisherFactory.create(cfg)
+    publisher_config.topic = "foo"
+    pub = EventPublisherFactory.create(publisher_config)
 
     from .conftest import MockSubscriber
-    sub_foo = MockSubscriber(cfg.endpoint, None, "foo")
-    sub_bar = MockSubscriber(cfg.endpoint, None, "bar")
+    sub_foo = MockSubscriber(publisher_config.endpoint, None, "foo")
+    sub_bar = MockSubscriber(publisher_config.endpoint, None, "bar")
 
     try:
         time.sleep(0.1)