Set an event's activity status

This article helps you:

Understand what constitutes an active or inactive event
Learn how to set an event's status

You can specify whether Amplitude should consider an event to be active or inactive. A good way to think about the difference is that 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. Some good examples of this would be 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 aren't counted as active users for that day, though they do count towards Amplitude’s new user definitions.

Note

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

To change the activity status, follow these steps:

Click the checkbox next to the event name. You can select more than one event if you want to change the status of multiple events at once.
Click the Edit Activity drop-down menu.
Select the new event status.

Note

This only applies to active events and event properties that are 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 on an event's name to access the Details flyout, and change the Activity status from the drop-down menu.