# MQTT Engine auto enable history

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-engine-auto-enable-history/32017>\
**Category:** 3rd Party Modules\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-engine-auto-enable-history/32017 "2020-02-06T20:01:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhottell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jhottell/32/6472_2.png) [@jhottell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jhottell)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-engine-auto-enable-history/32017/1 "2020-02-06T20:01:35Z")

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Hey community, has anyone found a way for the MQTT Engine to enable history when new tags are auto created? I though all my dreams were coming true with the auto tag creation then realized I couldn’t trend the data. I am using a custom namespace with simple MQTT but suppose I could go to the effort to do JSON or SparkplugB if it was possible in those versions. I haven’t seen any documentation about this so far on the web.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![tordvd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tordvd/32/11525_2.png) [@tordvd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tordvd)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-engine-auto-enable-history/32017/2 "2020-02-14T08:31:01Z")

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Pretty sure that with it is not possible with the normal MQTT.

But with SparkplugB on the other hand, I just updated my previous post:

> [@Sparkplug and historyEnabled property. (node-red)](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sparkplug-and-historyenabled-property-node-red/30101/5):
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> I think i found out why history enabled was not possible. See the screenshot below: Will try to remove the filter later