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title: Managing system events
description: Managing system events involves creating, monitoring, and handling events to drive automation and streamline processes. Administrators and developers can define custom events, register them in the system, and set up actions or work-flows that respond to these events. This functionality helps ensure efficient task execution, helps improve system monitoring, and enables more robust error handling for enhanced operational reliability.
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product: System Events
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [System Events, Build workflows]
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# Managing system events

Managing system events involves creating, monitoring, and handling events to drive automation and streamline processes. Administrators and developers can define custom events, register them in the system, and set up actions or work-flows that respond to these events. This functionality helps ensure efficient task execution, helps improve system monitoring, and enables more robust error handling for enhanced operational reliability.

## Overview of managing system events

-   [Create an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_CreateYourOwnEvent.md)

    Create custom system events.

-   [Move an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/move_event.md)

    Accelerate the execution process by moving high priority events from the default queue to an isolated queue.

-   [Pass event parameters from a work-flow to a notification](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_PassEventParameters.md)

    Pass two event parameters that send information about a record or related records from a work-flow to a notification.

-   [Register an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_RegisterAnEvent.md)

    Register an event for a specific table and a business rule that fires the event.

-   [Reprocess an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_ReprocessAnEvent.md)

    Re-fire an event for testing or diagnostic purposes.


## System events reference

For more information, see [System events reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/system-events-reference.md).

-   **[Create an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_CreateYourOwnEvent.md)**  
If you do not find a suitable existing event, you can create your own.
-   **[Move an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/move_event.md)**  
Accelerate the execution process by moving high priority events from the default queue to an isolated queue.
-   **[Pass event parameters from a work-flow to a notification](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_PassEventParameters.md)**  
Pass two event parameters that send information about a record or related records from a work-flow to a notification.
-   **[Register an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_RegisterAnEvent.md)**  
You can register an event for a specific table and a business rule that fires the event.
-   **[Reprocess an event](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/t_ReprocessAnEvent.md)**  
You can fire the event again for testing or diagnostic purposes.

**Parent Topic:**[System Events](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/system-events/system-events-landing.md)