diff --git a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/user/event/ListEventsCmd.java b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/user/event/ListEventsCmd.java
index b5273c64922..cb935c13e97 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/user/event/ListEventsCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/api/command/user/event/ListEventsCmd.java
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ public class ListEventsCmd extends BaseListProjectAndAccountResourcesCmd {
     @Parameter(name = ApiConstants.ARCHIVED, type = CommandType.BOOLEAN, description = "true to list archived events otherwise false", since="4.19.0")
     private Boolean archived;
 
+    @Parameter(name = ApiConstants.STATE, type = CommandType.STRING, description = "The state of the events", since="4.21.0")
+    private String state;
+
     /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     /////////////////// Accessors ///////////////////////
     /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -121,6 +124,10 @@ public class ListEventsCmd extends BaseListProjectAndAccountResourcesCmd {
         return archived != null && archived;
     }
 
+    public String getState() {
+        return state;
+    }
+
     /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     /////////////// API Implementation///////////////////
     /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/api/query/QueryManagerImpl.java b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/api/query/QueryManagerImpl.java
index 59e37c9f4df..1b60bdcc9e1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/api/query/QueryManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/cloud/api/query/QueryManagerImpl.java
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ import com.cloud.dc.dao.HostPodDao;
 import com.cloud.domain.Domain;
 import com.cloud.domain.DomainVO;
 import com.cloud.domain.dao.DomainDao;
+import com.cloud.event.Event;
 import com.cloud.event.EventVO;
 import com.cloud.event.dao.EventDao;
 import com.cloud.event.dao.EventJoinDao;
@@ -868,6 +869,7 @@ public class QueryManagerImpl extends MutualExclusiveIdsManagerBase implements Q
         Long startId = cmd.getStartId();
         final String resourceUuid = cmd.getResourceId();
         final String resourceTypeStr = cmd.getResourceType();
+        final String stateStr = cmd.getState();
         ApiCommandResourceType resourceType = null;
         Long resourceId = null;
         if (resourceTypeStr != null) {
@@ -897,6 +899,13 @@ public class QueryManagerImpl extends MutualExclusiveIdsManagerBase implements Q
                 accountMgr.checkAccess(CallContext.current().getCallingAccount(), SecurityChecker.AccessType.ListEntry, entity.getAccountId() == caller.getId(), entity);
             }
         }
+        Event.State state = null;
+        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(stateStr)) {
+            state = EnumUtils.getEnum(Event.State.class, stateStr);
+            if (state == null) {
+                throw new InvalidParameterValueException(String.format("Invalid %s specified: %s", ApiConstants.STATE, stateStr));
+            }
+        }
 
         Ternary<Long, Boolean, ListProjectResourcesCriteria> domainIdRecursiveListProject = new Ternary<>(cmd.getDomainId(), cmd.isRecursive(), null);
         accountMgr.buildACLSearchParameters(caller, id, cmd.getAccountName(), cmd.getProjectId(), permittedAccounts, domainIdRecursiveListProject, cmd.listAll(), false);
@@ -920,7 +929,7 @@ public class QueryManagerImpl extends MutualExclusiveIdsManagerBase implements Q
         eventSearchBuilder.and("createDateB", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getCreateDate(), SearchCriteria.Op.BETWEEN);
         eventSearchBuilder.and("createDateG", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getCreateDate(), SearchCriteria.Op.GTEQ);
         eventSearchBuilder.and("createDateL", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getCreateDate(), SearchCriteria.Op.LTEQ);
-        eventSearchBuilder.and("state", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getState(), SearchCriteria.Op.NEQ);
+        eventSearchBuilder.and("state", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getState(), SearchCriteria.Op.EQ);
         eventSearchBuilder.or("startId", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getStartId(), SearchCriteria.Op.EQ);
         eventSearchBuilder.and("createDate", eventSearchBuilder.entity().getCreateDate(), SearchCriteria.Op.BETWEEN);
         eventSearchBuilder.and("displayEvent", eventSearchBuilder.entity().isDisplay(), SearchCriteria.Op.EQ);
@@ -989,6 +998,10 @@ public class QueryManagerImpl extends MutualExclusiveIdsManagerBase implements Q
             sc.setParameters("archived", cmd.getArchived());
         }
 
+        if (state != null) {
+            sc.setParameters("state", state);
+        }
+
         Pair<List<Long>, Integer> eventPair;
         // event_view will not have duplicate rows for each event, so
         // searchAndCount should be good enough.
diff --git a/ui/public/locales/en.json b/ui/public/locales/en.json
index 753eec2e6f6..4eace1c810e 100644
--- a/ui/public/locales/en.json
+++ b/ui/public/locales/en.json
@@ -573,6 +573,7 @@
 "label.communities": "Communities",
 "label.community": "Community",
 "label.complete": "Complete",
+"label.completed": "Completed",
 "label.compute": "Compute",
 "label.compute.offerings": "Compute Offerings",
 "label.compute.offering.for.sharedfs.instance": "Compute Offering for Instance",
@@ -2157,6 +2158,7 @@
 "label.scaleup.policy": "ScaleUp policy",
 "label.scaling": "Scaling",
 "label.schedule": "Schedule",
+"label.scheduled": "Scheduled",
 "label.schedule.add": "Add schedule",
 "label.scheduled.backups": "Scheduled backups",
 "label.schedules": "Schedules",
@@ -2328,6 +2330,7 @@
 "label.standard.us.keyboard": "Standard (US) keyboard",
 "label.start": "Start",
 "label.startasn": "Start AS Number",
+"label.started": "Started",
 "label.start.date": "Start date",
 "label.start.date.and.time": "Start date and time",
 "label.start.ip": "Start IP",
diff --git a/ui/src/components/view/SearchView.vue b/ui/src/components/view/SearchView.vue
index 9288b248969..409a5020ad0 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/view/SearchView.vue
+++ b/ui/src/components/view/SearchView.vue
@@ -1380,6 +1380,25 @@ export default {
             name: 'label.disabled'
           }
         ]
+      } else if (this.apiName.indexOf('listEvents') > -1) {
+        state = [
+          {
+            id: 'Created',
+            name: 'label.created'
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'Scheduled',
+            name: 'label.scheduled'
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'Started',
+            name: 'label.started'
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'Completed',
+            name: 'label.completed'
+          }
+        ]
       }
       return state
     },
diff --git a/ui/src/config/section/event.js b/ui/src/config/section/event.js
index 5ab87e86964..b07f3ba37c4 100644
--- a/ui/src/config/section/event.js
+++ b/ui/src/config/section/event.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export default {
     return fields
   },
   details: ['username', 'id', 'description', 'resourcetype', 'resourceid', 'state', 'level', 'type', 'account', 'domain', 'created'],
-  searchFilters: ['level', 'domainid', 'account', 'keyword', 'resourcetype'],
+  searchFilters: ['level', 'domainid', 'account', 'keyword', 'resourcetype', 'state'],
   related: [{
     name: 'event',
     title: 'label.event.timeline',