# Remote Tag History Access **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [October 30, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951 "2024-10-30T12:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jorge_Dalzotto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/1 "2024-10-30T12:57:54Z")
hi everybody! I need to access remote tag history. My idea was using a "Remote Tag Provider (Gateway Network)" but I didn't want use the "Gateway Network" because only I need access to the history but not at the tag realtime values. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/9/0985685f6055b91c3569a949fb7bd51a3f4119e1.png) Therefore I use "History Access Mode" at **Database** and I configured the rest of parameters. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/b/1ba07bf0812e273413834057355571ea7fd26a7a.png) That only work if I enabled the "Datasource History Provider" option for this connection. The "problem" is that connection is only for access the tag history but not to do local historisation. It don't have sense to need enable the "Datasource History Provider" for a connection that never It store data, specialy when all the configuration parameter to access the data was declare in the "Remote Tag Provider/History Settings". For now, I'll use the "Gateway Network", but maybe that situation it a bug ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/2 "2024-10-30T13:08:58Z")
Do you have a database connection to the DB holding that remote gateway's history? If so, you don't need an RTP at all, just construct history tag paths using the local DB connection, and the remote gateway's name and tag provider name as the parts of the "driver" term. See this topic and linked topics: > [@Tag History Indirect Binding](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-history-indirect-binding/96810): > > Not really needing help, but looking for validation on something. When binding tag history to a dataset, I dragged some tags over from the historical tags. As such, the tag paths were structured as: [DB\_Connection/GatewayName:Tag\_Provider]Tag\_Folder\_Path/Tag I needed to set this up for indirection. Since most of my indirects use a Tag\_Folder\_Path variable of the form [Tag\_Provider]Tag\_Folder\_Path, I just plugged this as a placeholder with intent to reformat to the full path later. However, th… ---
**Author:** ![Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jorge_Dalzotto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/3 "2024-10-30T14:43:42Z")
Yes, I have a connection to database of the tag remote history called "DB\_fast\_node\_1" in my Ignition Gateway "GW-Node\_0". And you are right, with this method It isn't need to use a RTP for access the historizartion of the others Ignition gateways "GW-Node\_x". Ex. from my main GW (GW-Node\_0) only use: > path = "[DB\_fast\_node\_1/GW-Node\_1:default]Tag\_name" > system.tag.queryTagHistory([path], startDate, endDate) That work fine, but still It need to enable the "Datasource History Provider" for this connection "DB\_fast\_node\_1" in my gateway even if it is only used to read values. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/4 "2024-10-30T14:53:20Z")
> [@Jorge\_Dalzotto](#): > > It need to enable the "Datasource History Provider" for this connection "DB\_fast\_node\_1" in my gateway even if it is only used to read values Yes, no avoiding that. But that doesn't involve the GAN, which was your original question. ---
**Author:** ![Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jorge\_Dalzotto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jorge_Dalzotto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/5 "2024-10-30T15:09:21Z")
That's truth, but the idea was for many nodes. Each nodes It save your values and a "master node" or "Node\_0" read the values. So for a lot number (or not a lot, a few) of nodes the config of "Node\_0" stay dirty whith many "Datasource History Provider" enabled without use as never the node 0 store data, only read. My idea/objetive was avoid it. Thanks anyway. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-access/97951/6 "2024-10-30T15:29:11Z")
Consider using database replication (outside Ignition) to move your data from the multiple remote nodes to the single central node's database. Then a single database connection will work for all of the other node's history access.