# Alarm error about storing to Journal

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-error-about-storing-to-journal/19891>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 28, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-error-about-storing-to-journal/19891 "2018-09-28T21:24:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jimjohnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jimjohnson)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-error-about-storing-to-journal/19891/1 "2018-09-28T21:24:44Z")

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I am using Alarms for a way to keep a history of machine faults. It works ok, but we just notice a lot of these errors in the log:

```
   E [a.J.Journal] [21:04:22]: Attempted to store alarm information before journal system was initialized. Data will not be stored.

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Can someone point me to what may be causing this?

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**Author:** ![jimjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jimjohnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jimjohnson)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-error-about-storing-to-journal/19891/2 "2018-10-02T15:22:00Z")

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Anyone?

Can I disable something so that it doesn’t try to Journal? I see nothing in the Alarm settings.