# Ignition Edge Historian - Retrieve capacity status from a script

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-historian-retrieve-capacity-status-from-a-script/110558>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** edge\
**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-historian-retrieve-capacity-status-from-a-script/110558 "2025-09-12T03:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![karl.brook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@karl.brook](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/karl.brook)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-historian-retrieve-capacity-status-from-a-script/110558/1 "2025-09-12T03:45:24Z")

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Is is possible to get the status of how full the edge historian is from a script? I would like to be able to display a warning to operators if the system starts getting close to the 10million points limit.

I see the gateway displays how many records are present in the “Connections → Store & Forward” menu, but can this value be retrieved programmatically?

I had a quick go at using system.db.getConnections() to see if any data about the edge historian was accessible but it doesn’t look like it counts as a db connection.

Ignition edge version : 8.1.48

OS: win11

Thanks in advance

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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 12, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-historian-retrieve-capacity-status-from-a-script/110558/2 "2025-09-12T15:40:15Z")

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There should be system tags indicating the status of the store and forward system.