# Alert won't go away

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-wont-go-away/3453>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 18, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-wont-go-away/3453 "2011-10-18T14:13:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jdana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jdana](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdana)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-wont-go-away/3453/1 "2011-10-18T14:13:33Z")

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I created an alert tag and then changed the name of it in Ignition version 7.3. The alert was active when I changed the name. Now the system shows an alert with the old name that will not go away.

A workaround was to recreate the alert with the same name and then make sure the alert is not active and then delete the SQL tag.

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-wont-go-away/3453/2 "2011-10-18T14:58:52Z")

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Right, we hold that alert in memory. If you simply restart Ignition (the windows service) that alert will go away.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alert-wont-go-away/3453/3 "2011-10-25T19:54:57Z")

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Renaming should have sent out a “de-register” message, similar to what happens when you delete. It’s possible that something unusual happened, or that the rename isn’t correctly sending it. I’ll look into that.

Regards,