# AlarmStateChecker - "Error checking alarms" message filling up Logs

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarmstatechecker-error-checking-alarms-message-filling-up-logs/112203>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [November 14, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarmstatechecker-error-checking-alarms-message-filling-up-logs/112203 "2025-11-14T22:29:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jennifer.chang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jennifer.chang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jennifer.chang)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarmstatechecker-error-checking-alarms-message-filling-up-logs/112203/1 "2025-11-14T22:29:58Z")

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Forgive me if this is obvious but I am not very familiar with python, and this is probably why I can’t figure out what this error is about and where it is caused. I am looking at the logs in my gateway and there is constantly occurring error filling up the log:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/3/235de399ab6576cc84b3eaa44446dfaba4b61ec3.png)

I have no idea where to start to get rid of this (most scripting in the project has been done by someone else). Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarmstatechecker-error-checking-alarms-message-filling-up-logs/112203/2 "2025-11-14T22:52:21Z")

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Somewhere in the project, someone has done a line of code like the following:  
`someDictionaryObject.fullPath`  
instead of the very similar but functionally quite different:  
`someDictionaryObject['fullPath']`

The stacktrace (`+`) icon on that error message and the MDC keys (magnifying glass icon), if they're available, would help you/us tell you where to start troubleshooting.

`AlarmStateChecker` is not an Ignition created logger, so someone is manually creating that logger in code. Unfortunately, that probably means you won't have stacktrace or MDC context.

You could try going into each project you have in the designer and using Find & Replace (Ctrl + F) to look for `AlarmStateChecker` and see if you can find the logger creation and work from there.

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**Author:** ![jennifer.chang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jennifer.chang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jennifer.chang)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarmstatechecker-error-checking-alarms-message-filling-up-logs/112203/3 "2025-11-18T20:57:02Z")

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Oh, that makes sense! Thank you so much!