# Alarm acknowledgment for multiple alarms from the same tag

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-acknowledgment-for-multiple-alarms-from-the-same-tag/19834>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-acknowledgment-for-multiple-alarms-from-the-same-tag/19834 "2018-09-26T12:52:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-acknowledgment-for-multiple-alarms-from-the-same-tag/19834/1 "2018-09-26T12:52:45Z")

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I scripted out some things to use a 3rd party service to notify operators about alarms.

The only problem I’m having is in the following scenario:

Tag A goes in to alarm, then clears. (We’ll call this alarm 1).  
Tag A goes in to alarm then clears. (Alarm 2).  
Tag A goes in to alarm then clears. (Alarm 3).  
Then, Someone acknowledges all the alarms from the ignition alarm component.

When I use system.alarm.queryJournal to look up alarms 1 and 2 by their uuid, they are shown as unacknowledged. Is there another property to look at to see that alarm 3 has been acknowledged and ‘supersedes’ (idk) the first two alarms?  
This is important as I’m scripting a separate database table to keep track of who was notified about an alarm, and how it was acknowledged (by a response in the third party system, or directly in ignition).

Thanks!