# Remote Tag History Providers **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [February 7, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-providers/102044 "2025-02-07T16:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Furlani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/benjamin_furlani/32/66084_2.png) [@Benjamin\_Furlani](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Benjamin_Furlani)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-providers/102044/1 "2025-02-07T16:38:29Z")
For remote tag history providers I don't have to license the local gateway's tag historian module if the central gateway is activated, correct? I feel like this makes sense but want to verify as I haven't done a ton with tag historian specifically. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-providers/102044/2 "2025-02-07T16:50:41Z")
I'm pretty sure both ends need the license. ---
**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-history-providers/102044/3 "2025-02-07T17:23:59Z")
I think you need a licence for tag historian for the gateway to produce historian data and push them to db. You can read historian from another gateway without the historian module if you use remote historian with GAN. If you have the historian module you can directly query database and of course produce some historian data.