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title: Set an event's activity status
description: "Set an event as active or inactive in Amplitude to control whether it counts in active-user and active-event metrics."
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# Set an event's activity status

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Setting an event's activity status to **active** or **inactive** tells Amplitude whether to count that event in metrics that track active users and active events. An active event is one the user actively engaged with, like clicking the Add to Cart button. An **inactive** event is one that happened to the user without any specific action on their part. Good examples include events like `Push Notification Sent` or `Message Received`.

Setting an event as inactive removes that event from any dashboard metrics counting active users and active events. Users who only trigger inactive events **don't count** as active users for that day, though they **do** count towards Amplitude's new user definitions.

> **Note:**
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> When you change an event's activity status from active to inactive, Amplitude applies that change **immediately and retroactively**, so expect to see changes in your historical data. Inactive events still count against your event volume.

To change the activity status, follow these steps:

1. Click the checkbox next to the event name. You can select more than one event to change the status of multiple events at once.
2. Click the _Edit Activity_ drop-down menu.
3. Select the new event status.

> **Note:**
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> This only applies to **active** events and event properties **included in your tracking plan**. It also **doesn't** apply to custom events.

You can also update the Activity status from the _Activity_ column in the _Events_ table, or the _Details_ flyout of a specific event. From the _Events_ table, change the status from the _Activity_ column's drop-down menu. Click an event's name to access the _Details_ flyout, and change the _Activity_ status from the drop-down menu.