# Audit Events in Ignition 8.1.18 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [July 29, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-in-ignition-8-1-18/62484 "2022-07-29T18:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-in-ignition-8-1-18/62484/4 "2022-07-29T19:50:32Z")
> I don’t suppose there is anyway to prevent it from happening within 8.1.18? Not that I can see.. Here are the two other threads that relate to the issue, for reference: > [@\[IGN-6344\] Audit log full from system.tag.writeBlocking calls](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/61142): > > I upgraded Ignition from 8.1.17 to 8.1.18 on Monday (6/20). Version 8.1.17 did not log the system.tag.writeBlocking script calls in the audit log. Version 8.1.18 is logging all of them! For example: I have a gateway timer script running to update a couple tags using the system.tag.writeBlocking function. I write the number of active and unacknowledged alarms to these tags so I can display an icon if there are alarms that need attention. Now when I get an alarm, the tag write function const… > [@\[IGN-6344\] Frontend/Backend gateways - Perspective system.tag.write\* causing two audit entries](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/62099): > > Split Gateway architecture, Frontend and Backend. Recently upgraded from 8.1.5 to 8.1.18. I’ve just noticed that calling system.tag.write\* in Perspective, not affecting Vision (haven’t specifically checked anywhere else) is causing duplicate entries to be recorded into the audit log - the frontend row has the ACTOR and ACTOR\_HOST non-null while the backend row has these as null (makes sense). I’m assuming that both the frontend and backend are auditing these independently: frontend handles th… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/audit-events-in-ignition-8-1-18/62484)._