# Lingering web dev alarms

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lingering-web-dev-alarms/20667>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lingering-web-dev-alarms/20667 "2018-11-08T15:22:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![adolfo.rafael.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@adolfo.rafael.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adolfo.rafael.martin)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lingering-web-dev-alarms/20667/1 "2018-11-08T15:22:41Z")

</div>

When I use the python function to acknowledge an alarm,

system.alarm.acknowledge(),

the alarm is acknowledged and disappears from the alarm status table, but it continues to be output by a call to the python function,

system.alarm.queryStatus(State=[“ActiveUnacked”,“ActiveAcked”,“ClearAcked”,“ClearUnacked”, includeShelved=“false”)

Although, it does show the alarm has been acknowledged, shouldn’t it disappear from there as well?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 8, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lingering-web-dev-alarms/20667/2 "2018-11-08T19:09:44Z")

</div>

Acknowledge does not equal RESET.  
The alarm will go from Active-Unacked to Active-Acked  
Only when the underlying trigger for the alarm goes off will the alarm be removed from the active alarm system.

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Alarm+Status](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Alarm+Status)  
For more info.