# Is there a way to stop alarms from being sent if the gateway restarts?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017 "2022-04-28T19:58:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mSet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@mSet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mSet)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017/1 "2022-04-28T19:58:34Z")

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I haven’t been able to find a solution to prevent alarms being resent if the gateway restarts.

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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:** [April 28, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017/2 "2022-04-28T21:01:05Z")

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By default, “Notify Initial Events” is _false_ for alarms:  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+General+Alarm+Properties](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+General+Alarm+Properties)

Has someone changed it to true on your system?

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**Author:** ![mSet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@mSet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mSet)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017/3 "2022-04-28T21:52:41Z")

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No, it is still set to False ☹

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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:** [April 28, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017/4 "2022-04-28T22:21:37Z")

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With notify initial events set to false, then all the alarm events persisted when the gateway stops should “re-trigger” when the gateway starts back up again, but _not_ send out notifications. If that’s not what’s happening (as it sounds like) you should contact [Support](https://support.inductiveautomation.com) so they can figure out what’s going on.

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**Author:** ![dom.norris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dom.norris](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dom.norris)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-alarms-from-being-sent-if-the-gateway-restarts/59017/5 "2026-04-09T15:12:01Z")

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Did you come to any solution for this? Or did support help you investigate? I have a similar issue with edge gateways restarting and upon restart resend their alarms even when the “notify initial events” setting is set to false on all the gateways.