diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0038e5e07cb38a291505f439bd6685e961f0616a..22758f39b5e2e305be7483ad9c9d04e34ef7f9fa 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ spotbugs-benchmarks:
     - if: "$CR_HOST && $CR_ORG && $CR_USER && $CR_PW && $IMAGE_NAME && $JAVA_PROJECT_NAME && $CI_COMMIT_TAG"
       when: always
     - changes:
-      - $JAVA_PROJECT_NAME/**/*
+      - benchmarks/*
+      - benchmarks/$JAVA_PROJECT_NAME/**/*
       - benchmarks/application-kafkastreams-commons/**/*
       - benchmarks/workload-generator-commons/**/*
       if: "$CR_HOST && $CR_ORG && $CR_USER && $CR_PW && $IMAGE_NAME && $JAVA_PROJECT_NAME"