diff --git a/canal/canal.go b/canal/canal.go
index 1ba0c5165..132e7d2e7 100644
--- a/canal/canal.go
+++ b/canal/canal.go
@@ -463,7 +463,12 @@ func (c *Canal) prepareSyncer() error {
 		Dialer:                  c.cfg.Dialer,
 		Localhost:               c.cfg.Localhost,
 		EventCacheCount:         c.cfg.EventCacheCount,
-		RowsEventDecodeFunc: func(event *replication.RowsEvent, data []byte) error {
+	}
+
+	if c.cfg.RowsEventDecodeFunc != nil {
+		cfg.RowsEventDecodeFunc = c.cfg.RowsEventDecodeFunc
+	} else {
+		cfg.RowsEventDecodeFunc = func(event *replication.RowsEvent, data []byte) error {
 			pos, err := event.DecodeHeader(data)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
@@ -475,7 +480,7 @@ func (c *Canal) prepareSyncer() error {
 			}
 
 			return event.DecodeData(pos, data)
-		},
+		}
 	}
 
 	if strings.Contains(c.cfg.Addr, "/") {
diff --git a/canal/config.go b/canal/config.go
index 16692287d..6c7e435d6 100644
--- a/canal/config.go
+++ b/canal/config.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql/client"
 	"github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql/mysql"
+	"github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql/replication"
 )
 
 type DumpConfig struct {
@@ -71,6 +72,9 @@ type Config struct {
 	IncludeTableRegex []string `toml:"include_table_regex"`
 	ExcludeTableRegex []string `toml:"exclude_table_regex"`
 
+	// Allows to specify a custom function to decode RowsEvent. This can be used to skip decoding of some events.
+	RowsEventDecodeFunc func(*replication.RowsEvent, []byte) error
+
 	// discard row event without table meta
 	DiscardNoMetaRowEvent bool `toml:"discard_no_meta_row_event"`