# Ignition Alarms on Initialization

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarms-on-initialization/109510>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarms-on-initialization/109510 "2025-08-07T22:52:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Varsha\_Gottipati1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce73a5/32.png) [@Varsha\_Gottipati1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Varsha_Gottipati1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarms-on-initialization/109510/1 "2025-08-07T22:52:21Z")

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All,

I understand its a bad practice but here is how our alarm notifications are setup now:

Alarm 1 for when an actual alarm occurs and Alarm 2 for when it becomes normal. Notification profiles are setup for both. I did a reboot of the server today and all Normal condition notifications swamped our inbox. Is there a solution to this?

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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:** [August 7, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarms-on-initialization/109510/2 "2025-08-07T22:54:34Z")

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Change 'Notify Initial Events' to false (the default value):

> **[Alarm Event Properties Reference | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.3/platform/alarming/configuring-alarms/alarm-event-properties-reference#event-suppression)**
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> Alarm Event properties provide a lot of information regarding an alarm event and fall into several categories:

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**Author:** ![Varsha\_Gottipati1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce73a5/32.png) [@Varsha\_Gottipati1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Varsha_Gottipati1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-alarms-on-initialization/109510/3 "2025-08-07T23:07:08Z")

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The “Notify Initial Events” is set to false. Could it be the delay on these alarms that might be causing the issue?