# How get status of the database on Ignition?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 13, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800 "2024-12-13T14:33:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![marco\_alvarez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@marco\_alvarez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marco_alvarez)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/1 "2024-12-13T14:33:07Z")

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Hi, recently we encountered a problem where the database became full, and we didn't notice until three days later. Is there a way to track whether the database is accepting transactions and monitor the available disk space?

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/2 "2024-12-13T14:42:02Z")

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This thread has some information on this.

[alarm-on-database-errors](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-on-database-errors/97916)

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/3 "2024-12-13T14:43:25Z")

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You can start with these system tags:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/2/d2c32d38c3c531d8fea88ced3bbc5a45695d29cc.png)

And further to that create query tags for some of your additional beyond this

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**Author:** ![marco\_alvarez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@marco\_alvarez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marco_alvarez)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/4 "2024-12-13T18:00:18Z")

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Thanks guys, I will work on this

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**Author:** ![marco\_alvarez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@marco\_alvarez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/marco_alvarez)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/5 "2024-12-16T20:15:47Z")

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Where I can get information about what these tags mean:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/8/68e4b4d2802248c388c68439201ef9485b07115c.png)  
Im looking to know the status of my transactions with the database, if they are falling. I need to know the comm status with the database and if Im able to write and read correctly on the database.

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-get-status-of-the-database-on-ignition/99800/6 "2024-12-16T20:21:55Z")

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I do not think any of these will help you with disk full problems. Ignition runs a select query periodically to see if the DB is available, in otherwards it's a `select` not an `update`, so it won't report if `inserts` fail.

More on the tags here  
[System Tags | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/tags/types-of-tags/system-tags#database-system-tags)