# Ignition Alarm Journal Query causing catastrophic failure

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [September 13, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263 "2019-09-13T22:45:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![roger\_larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/roger_larson/32/8574_2.png) [@roger\_larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/roger_larson)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263/1 "2019-09-13T22:45:26Z")

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Hi all,

What exactly is system.alarm.queryJournal doing in the background? This function is repeatedly crashing our gateway and projects, leading us to be unable to re-open a project (due to de-serialization issues according to the wrapper) until we restart the Ignition Gateway service.

Did something change in the logic of this function? We ran it on the script console for about 3 days’ time and then tried to get data out of the resulting object with getDatset() and…it crashed the script console then my designer, and then nobody else was able to open a new designer.

Best,  
Roger

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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:** [September 16, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263/2 "2019-09-16T15:36:55Z")

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Were you on a snapshot version or 8.0.4 RC, by chance? There was a regression introduced within the last month that caused (serious) problems with certain queries, notably the alarm journal and audit log. 8.0.4 final and the latest 8.0.5 snapshots shouldn’t have the same issue.

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**Author:** ![roger\_larson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/roger_larson/32/8574_2.png) [@roger\_larson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/roger_larson)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263/3 "2019-09-16T16:21:04Z")

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Hi Paul,

We were on an 8.0.4. nightly, and we haven’t upgraded to an RC yet. Good to know! Is 8.0.4. final out?

Best,  
Roger

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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:** [September 16, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarm-journal-query-causing-catastrophic-failure/28263/4 "2019-09-16T16:22:29Z")

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Should be out **very** soon. I won’t make any promises due to ICC, but very soon.