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# User-Configurable Event Category
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  The **User-Configurable** event category contains the **User-Configurable** event classes.  
  
## In This Section  
  
|Topic|Description|  
|-----------|-----------------|  
|[User-Configurable Event Class](../../relational-databases/event-classes/user-configurable-event-class.md)|Used to monitor user-defined events that cannot be monitored by the system-supplied events in other event categories.|