# Alarm counter by associated data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counter-by-associated-data/60711>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [June 13, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counter-by-associated-data/60711 "2022-06-13T18:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counter-by-associated-data/60711/3 "2022-06-14T12:26:02Z")

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I recommend you explain what you are ultimately trying to do. If you are just wanting a count of alarms for a specific path, that is relatively easy and there are many posts on this forum already about it.

> [@Active alarm in area?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/active-alarm-in-area/41892):
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> I would like to have a way of knowing if any PLC tag in a particular process area has an active alarm so that I can show in the HMI which areas have or do not have an active alarm. This could be used in a process overview display to show several process areas, and those with active alarms could have blinking red or something like that. I think I would have to make use of the system.alarm.queryStatus function in a Python script. If tags for each process area are in separate folders, I could us…

> [@Displaying Alarm Count](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/displaying-alarm-count/15443):
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> I am trying to display a number of alarms that are active. However, I am trying to display certain alarms. I have the alarms that I am wanting to display in a group called “Spray Status”. Is there a way to display how many alarms are active in that group?

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