# Filtering DB Alarm Journal by Provider

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-db-alarm-journal-by-provider/113727>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 3, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-db-alarm-journal-by-provider/113727 "2026-02-03T16:57:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![bmueller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bmueller](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmueller)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-db-alarm-journal-by-provider/113727/1 "2026-02-03T16:57:02Z")

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I have multiple Ignition Edge Gateways all linked to one central gateway. I have them all linked by gateway network and they all have their own real-time tag providers on the main gateway. Each remote gateway has alarms on them I am trying to set up a DB alarm journal for each one that filters and only inserts alarm events based on the gateway its coming from.

I ran a script (alarms = system.alarm.queryStatus(source="iMARS2")  
for a in alarms:  
print "RAW SOURCE:", a.getSource()  
print "DISPLAY PATH:", a.displayPath  
print "-----")

in script console on the main gateway to see that this is how its seeing the alarms (this is one of them)

RAW SOURCE: prov:Sandpoint\_iMARS2:/tag:iMARS2/Load Station/Errors/Part\_Drop\_Error:/alm:Load Station Alarm  
DISPLAY PATH: 9

so then I set the filter on Alarm Journal to this: \*_prov:Sandpoint\_iMARS2:/_ \*

this produces nothing in my database when alarms are going active and being cleared.

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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:** [February 3, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filtering-db-alarm-journal-by-provider/113727/2 "2026-02-03T16:59:40Z")

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Try:  
`*prov:Sandpoint_iMARS2*`

The `:/` is the field separator, it shouldn't be part of your wildcards.