# Alarm Journal not working

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-not-working/22056>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-not-working/22056 "2019-01-23T12:44:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-not-working/22056/8 "2020-09-29T22:51:01Z")

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Late by more than a year but will help future visitors …  
Check the Designer logs as mentioned by @paul-griffith , in my case I saw this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/0/20006151e9b49cf8ee2a3c360c66a6b13b45733e.png)  
By default the Journal name is Auto but it does not work so I have to give it the journal name as configured in the Gateway webpage:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/c/2cfeca7d08bf85117d1215fcac5b7b9adb542a51.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/c/1cf25447528bd61c569e0bba65623a36f8fd17c4.png)

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