# Retrieve "History Driver" and "History Provider" for Remote Tag Providers

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-history-driver-and-history-provider-for-remote-tag-providers/102868>\
**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")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-history-driver-and-history-provider-for-remote-tag-providers/102868/3 "2025-02-26T00:43:19Z")

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> [@Remote Tag Provider History Queries](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/remote-tag-provider-history-queries/93632):
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> I'm working on a couple tasks related to historians and history queries, and have encountered some behaviors of remote tag providers (RTPs) that have me stymied: There's no public way to retrieve the gateway name that a RTP is pointing at, nor any public way to retrieve the far end's real tag provider name. (Reflection has exposed com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.tags.distributed.client.RemoteTagProvider and com.inductiveautomation.metro.api.ServerId to me, and a number of private fie…

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