# Retrieve "History Driver" and "History Provider" for Remote Tag Providers **URL:** \ **Category:** Module Development\ **Created:** [February 26, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-history-driver-and-history-provider-for-remote-tag-providers/102868 "2025-02-26T00:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-history-driver-and-history-provider-for-remote-tag-providers/102868/11 "2026-02-10T00:41:06Z")
From a module, you can access the raw configuration of anything using the configuration manager, as described in workarounds here: > [@Get database name of sql based historical provider](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-database-name-of-sql-based-historical-provider/113621/10): > > Right now, you could use the REST API to read the config or reach into technically unsupported territory and use the underlying ConfigurationManager directly. In some future 8.3 version, hopefully 8.3.5, you'll be able to use system.config scripting to access configuration directly. > [@REST gateway access from perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/rest-gateway-access-from-perspective/113564): > > Hello, I would like to display (and possibly edit) the Read-Only setting of OPC UA servers in Perspective. I haven’t been able to find a corresponding tag in the System tag provider or any system function that would give me this information. Because of that, I believe my only option is to use the Gateway REST API. However, I’ve run into some HTTPS-related issues while trying to use it. Before I spend more time troubleshooting that, I’d like to make sure there isn’t another way to ac… You'll need to know the resource type of the thing you're trying to read, and should encode a static reference to its type meta so you can safely decode it in a "safe" manner. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-history-driver-and-history-provider-for-remote-tag-providers/102868)._