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Drupal 8 has adopted Symfony as a part of its core. It uses Symfony kernel and events to do the same now. The list of kernel events available in Drupal 8 is as follows:

• KernelEvents::CONTROLLER
  The CONTROLLER event occurs once a controller was found for handling a request.
   
• KernelEvents::EXCEPTION
  The EXCEPTION event occurs when an uncaught exception appears.
   
• KernelEvents::FINISH_REQUEST 
  The FINISH_REQUEST event occurs when a response was generated for a request.
   
• KernelEvents::REQUEST 
  The REQUEST event occurs at the very beginning of request dispatching.
   
• KernelEvents::RESPONSE
  The RESPONSE event occurs once a response was created for replying to a request.
   
• KernelEvents::TERMINATE
  The TERMINATE event occurs once a response was sent.
   
• KernelEvents::VIEW
  The VIEW event occurs when the return value of a controller is not a Response instance.

Drupal 8 provides a way to subscribe to all these events and attach callbacks to be executed when these events occur. If our module needs to perform changes on the request/response object very early to the request an event subscriber should be used listening to the KernelEvents::REQUEST event. The same goes for the other events as well.