# Alarm Journal or table to show the last records

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-or-table-to-show-the-last-records/10325>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 10, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-or-table-to-show-the-last-records/10325 "2015-08-10T18:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![MoisesZV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@MoisesZV](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MoisesZV)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-journal-or-table-to-show-the-last-records/10325/1 "2015-08-10T18:56:07Z")

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Hi, I want to use a Alarm journal table to show just the last ‘x’ rows, but there is not option for that, so I trying to use a table and query the ‘alarm\_event\_data’ and ‘alarm\_events’ but I don’t understand the data.  
Which is the best way to deal with this problem? Use an alarm journal or just use a table?

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