# Alarm counts

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counts/8609>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 24, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counts/8609 "2014-06-24T15:35:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counts/8609/1 "2014-06-24T15:35:17Z")

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I’m upgrading a customer’s system from FactoryPMI/SQL 3.3.3 to Ignition7.6.6. We used to get alarm counts for each plant area by querying the point\_path field in the alarm log, but that has all changed with Ignition 7.6.6.

How would I go about getting a count of the current acknowledged and unacknowledged alarms in each area? Do I use the system.alarm.queryStatus function or the system.alert.queryAlertStatus function? What’s the difference between an alarm and an alert?

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-counts/8609/2 "2014-06-24T16:21:25Z")

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I think system.alert.queryAlertStatus() is before 7.6

You should use system.alarm.\* for 7.6+, but I could be wrong.