# Huge number of Alarm records in database after starting Ignition Gateway **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition80\ **Created:** [July 10, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307 "2025-07-10T08:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iscrac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/iscrac/32/49757_2.png) [@iscrac](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iscrac)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/1 "2025-07-10T08:19:15Z")
Hi! I have a long time issue with alarm records to database after each Ignition Gateway start/restart Actually, when I start Ignition, so from every alarm tag I have record to database even if alarm is not active now. Maybe there is a property, which I should enable/disable? I have more than 200 stations with more than 30 defined alarms. So You can imagine how many records I get in database when Ignition Gateway starts... I delete them manually every time. Please somebody help me to not letting Ignition to insert these unuseful records to alarm\_events database table) SOOOO MANY THANX in Advance šŸ™ƒ And sorry if there is allready the same topic... but I did not find any... ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/2 "2025-07-10T12:50:58Z")
Did someone change the detection window size? It defaults to 10 minutes. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/b/3b43d3b10267ec2c78010acb074ef53013608903.png) > **[Alarm Event Properties Reference | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/alarming/configuring-alarms/alarm-event-properties-reference#event-suppression)** > > Alarm Event properties provide a lot of information regarding an alarm event and fall into several categories: ---
**Author:** ![iscrac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/iscrac/32/49757_2.png) [@iscrac](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iscrac)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/3 "2025-07-10T15:56:37Z")
Thank You! You saved me) šŸ¤ ---
**Author:** ![iscrac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/iscrac/32/49757_2.png) [@iscrac](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iscrac)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/4 "2025-08-08T09:27:02Z")
Actually today was the possibility to test this. and it didnā€™t help. I get a lot of alarms as it was beforeā€¦ Maybe there is something else I could change in Gateway? ---
**Author:** ![george-gambill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@george-gambill](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/george-gambill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/5 "2026-06-09T20:06:18Z")
Did you ever figure this out? On every startup I get over 500 alarms. Since I'm running Edge as an HMI, startups happen more frequently. All my alarms are configured as Bit State but when I look at the details of the startup alarms, they say the Event Value was 0 even though the "On Zero" is set to false. ---
**Author:** ![tgarrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tgarrison/32/80965_2.png) [@tgarrison](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tgarrison)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/6 "2026-06-10T14:53:44Z")
Completely out of curiosity - what is your setup that you have to worry about gateway restarts? Are you shutting it down on a regular basis for some reason? Curious as we pretty much only ever restarted when we did a version upgrade. Beyond that, our gateway would run for months.. ---
**Author:** ![george-gambill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@george-gambill](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/george-gambill)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/huge-number-of-alarm-records-in-database-after-starting-ignition-gateway/108307/7 "2026-06-22T20:38:12Z")
Since we are using Ignition Edge as the HMI, every time they lock the machine out for maintenance, it gets powered down.