# History Manager is not licensed for storage **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, database\ **Created:** [September 19, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789 "2025-09-19T16:02:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/1 "2025-09-19T16:02:15Z")
Hello, I am running into an issue where I have configured a Tag History database that appears to be running fine. After adding a particular tag to historical trending via the Tag Editor, I am not seeing any data being moved into the SQL Lite database, cannot access any tags in Power Chart, and run into the following error in the logs: “The tag historian module is not licensed for storage. Data will not be stored to ‘demo\_db1’” I am running the trial version of Ignition to experiment with MQTT telemetry, and have ensured that the trial mode is active. I’m not sure what else to troubleshoot here as there is limited info online for this error. Any help on this subject is greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/2 "2025-09-19T16:04:05Z")
Is your trial currently expired and needing to be reset? ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/3 "2025-09-19T16:05:26Z")
Hey Kevin, I have ensured that the trial is not expired and reset my activation. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/4 "2025-09-19T16:12:42Z")
Is this a standard Ignition install or something like Edge or Maker? ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/5 "2025-09-19T16:13:50Z")
This is a standard ignition 8.1.49 installation running on Windows 11. The reason I used version 8.1.49, is because the MQTT modules are not available for download when using the 8.3 version (unlicensed) ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/6 "2025-09-19T16:18:05Z")
For further reference, I am going through a recently added Inductive University course on Perspective development and have reached the step where I am using the Tag Editor to enable History on a tag, so it can be added to a Power Chart for trending and display. All configurations up to this point, including the SQL lite database setup, have worked fine. The database is shown as enabled and running. The issue here seems to be with licensing of the Tag History module. Thanks very much for your help, Kevin ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/7 "2025-09-19T16:24:03Z")
I ran out of ideas here so I've reached out to another team to see if they have any idea. Not sure how many people are really around right now since ICC just finished. You can always give support a call and they can probably figure it out as well. ---
**Author:** ![bschroeder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bschroeder/32/13260_2.png) [@bschroeder](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bschroeder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/8 "2025-09-19T16:26:19Z")
Check your license page and see if it has a license for history. If not, there might be something your account rep can do to enable the correct history license. ---
**Author:** ![Kurt.Larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kurt.larson/32/6426_2.png) [@Kurt.Larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kurt.Larson)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/9 "2025-09-19T16:43:15Z")
Can you tell me what the license details show for the historian module? Is it in `query only` mode? Or, does the platform license have the `tag_history_query` mode? ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/10 "2025-09-19T16:50:35Z")
The license details and module info is the following ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/0/90ccd3746ee047fd9e2ab46fdd822a3747b402fd.png) ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/11 "2025-09-19T16:52:23Z")
Thanks for the reply Kurt, How can I determine the license details? When navigating to the “license” tab under config → system, it indicates no licenses are active and I am on the trial version. ---
**Author:** ![Kurt.Larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kurt.larson/32/6426_2.png) [@Kurt.Larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kurt.Larson)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/12 "2025-09-19T16:54:42Z")
Is there any license applied here? > **[Licensing and Activation | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/licensing-and-activation#updating-a-license)** > > Ignition's licensing is unique and easy to use because Ignition is licensed by the server, not the client. You only need one license for your server; any clients are automatically included. In addition to that, an Ignition license is unlimited and... ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/13 "2025-09-19T16:56:20Z")
There does not appear to be any licenses applied in that section due to being on the trial version: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/d/0d05e3a093c7968c15fb2d1bc6ce60c3bcad3ba5.png) ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/14 "2025-09-19T17:07:04Z")
I also wanted to mention that I feel the database is configured correctly and running, because this licensing error is occurring every 2 minutes, which is the exact interval of change for the tag I am trying to shove in. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/f/dfa7e0b5c967993637c6aaebe8561ddd3aa09511.png) ---
**Author:** ![Kurt.Larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kurt.larson/32/6426_2.png) [@Kurt.Larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kurt.Larson)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/15 "2025-09-19T17:15:01Z")
Just curious, have you tried restarting the Gateway? Everything so far seems to be matching up, and should allow for storage. ---
**Author:** ![gabosm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@gabosm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/gabosm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/16 "2025-09-19T17:42:40Z")
Reporting back that after restarting the gateway machine, the error was resolved, and there is now data from my LoRaWAN sensor read via MQTT being placed into the SQL Lite database. This is a bit odd, as the gateway machine was powered off overnight, and therefor restarted this morning. But regardless, things are now working and I have SQL tag access in the Power Chart. Thanks very much to everyone from the Ignition community for helping out so quickly! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/e/6e2aa319998beb74d41a634aa52f37480951fd21.png) ---
**Author:** ![james.34](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/james.34/32/81884_2.png) [@james.34](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/james.34)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/history-manager-is-not-licensed-for-storage/110789/17 "2025-12-04T11:58:39Z")
The Core historian and the trial version still has some issues. Everything was working for few trial-reset periods and then suddenly no data were saved even though the trial was running. Gateway restart solved it. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/optimized/3X/9/8/985618d5fa51b8854c8db18742b554b37017f701_2_690x11.png)