# Disabling maxHistoryAge should be documented

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-maxhistoryage-should-be-documented/69853>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 14, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-maxhistoryage-should-be-documented/69853 "2023-02-14T19:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin.brzozoski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justin.brzozoski/32/13452_2.png) [@justin.brzozoski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justin.brzozoski)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-maxhistoryage-should-be-documented/69853/1 "2023-02-14T19:57:29Z")

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Trivial, but the manual page for [tag properties](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Tag+Properties) should explicitly mention that setting the `historyMaxAge` to 0 disables the automatic record collection completely. Yeah, I know it's the default and you can figure it out with experimentation, but I just spent a few minutes running that experiment and it annoyed me.

Probably a super quick fix please, @Paul.Scott ?

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Au](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/brandon_au/32/32944_2.png) [@Brandon\_Au](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brandon_Au)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-maxhistoryage-should-be-documented/69853/2 "2023-02-14T21:54:26Z")

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We'll go ahead and update the page, thanks for letting us know!