# Realtime Alarm Journal Inconsistent Display

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-alarm-journal-inconsistent-display/38260>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-alarm-journal-inconsistent-display/38260 "2020-09-01T15:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin.brzozoski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justin.brzozoski/32/13452_2.png) [@justin.brzozoski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justin.brzozoski)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-alarm-journal-inconsistent-display/38260/1 "2020-09-01T15:52:07Z")

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I’ve been experimenting with new alarm setups and pipelines on our test server all morning, and now the alarm journal component in Perspective is showing odd behavior which might be a bug. I have it set to show me the most recent 1 hour of realtime events, but otherwise no filtering or sorting.

Just sitting on a page showing this component, the list of alarms keeps flipping back and forth between two different sets of alarm events every few seconds. There is a lot of overlap between the two lists, but there are definitely differences as well, with a few unique items in each set.

I tried restarting the alarm reporting module and also force refreshing my Perspective session, but the behavior is still happening.

Is there a reasonable explanation as to why this might be happening? Is this possibly a bug? Is there some way to correct it?

I am running Ignition 8.0.12.

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**Author:** ![justin.brzozoski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justin.brzozoski/32/13452_2.png) [@justin.brzozoski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justin.brzozoski)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/realtime-alarm-journal-inconsistent-display/38260/2 "2020-09-02T21:03:13Z")

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Cleared the alarm cache as described in [this post](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/duplicate-alarms-being-generated/28207/7) and it seems to have fixed the issue. Not sure if it was stopping/restarting the server or clearing the cache that did it, but it’s better now.