# Pass authentication challenge data to alarm display path in perspective

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [August 18, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914 "2025-08-18T23:53:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kishan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@Kishan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kishan)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914/1 "2025-08-18T23:53:08Z")

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I am trying to record which user is passed the authentication challenge in an alarm journal table. Basically saying “User X changed system to Auto”. I have the authentication challenge working. I have the alarm working. But I cannot combine the two. It seems the alarm setup is gateway bound, and the authentication challenge is session bound. Is there a way to pass the username at the authentication challenge through to the alarm display path?

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914/2 "2025-08-18T23:55:36Z")

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This functionality is what you would use the audit log for, not the alarm system.

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**Author:** ![Kishan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@Kishan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kishan)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914/3 "2025-08-18T23:57:55Z")

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Thank you for the info. I briefly looked into the audit log but found it a bit complicated for my liking. But I will look further into it as I would like to have the ability to log which user is performing which action.

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**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pass-authentication-challenge-data-to-alarm-display-path-in-perspective/109914/4 "2025-08-19T01:07:42Z")

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This is exactly what the audit log is for. It logs every tag write performed by the system to a log. It’s not in the nice friendly format you’re wanting, but you can also log your own events if you really want that uses whatever wording you want.