# Get Alarm Counter

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-alarm-counter/37810>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-alarm-counter/37810 "2020-08-17T15:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![cedric.banchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cedric.banchet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cedric.banchet)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-alarm-counter/37810/1 "2020-08-17T15:40:28Z")

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Hello,  
I want to retrieve the number of alarms displayed in my filtered alarm banner on a start date and end date.  
Is this possible?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![franklepkowski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/franklepkowski/32/4808_2.png) [@franklepkowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/franklepkowski)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-alarm-counter/37810/2 "2020-08-21T03:17:35Z")

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Hi Cedric,

Yes this is possible. You can grab the dataset from the alarm summary and use a for loop to “count” the number of items in it.

Frank