diff --git a/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.spec.js b/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.spec.js
index ae5b75934b6621e1a43051d18158d4d8183f9c0f..e5733b8e1be7648c05004d0ceda6faa938b076b2 100644
--- a/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.spec.js
+++ b/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.spec.js
@@ -442,6 +442,20 @@ describe('Filtered search', () => {
       wrapper.findComponent(GlFilteredSearchTerm).vm.$emit('submit');
       expect(wrapper.emitted('submit')).toBeDefined();
     });
+
+    it('emits "change" event when token is complete', async () => {
+      createComponent({
+        value: ['one', { type: 'faketoken', value: '' }],
+      });
+
+      await nextTick();
+      wrapper.findComponent(FakeToken).vm.$emit('activate');
+      await nextTick();
+
+      expect(wrapper.emitted('change')).toBeUndefined();
+      wrapper.findComponent(FakeToken).vm.$emit('complete');
+      expect(wrapper.emitted('change')).toHaveLength(1);
+    });
   });
 
   it('normalizes term tokens to strings on submit', () => {
diff --git a/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.vue b/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.vue
index 1aa77f41bd78462e4d2aa898adfe4d82b4d5f39f..065acc611f5c4be103b268f64bd14228c77d1702 100644
--- a/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.vue
+++ b/src/components/base/filtered_search/filtered_search.vue
@@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ export default {
       } else {
         this.activeTokenIdx = null;
       }
+      /**
+       * Emitted when token is completed
+       */
+      this.$emit('change');
     },
 
     submit() {