# Show current active alarms on reporting

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-current-active-alarms-on-reporting/101693>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, reporting\
**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-current-active-alarms-on-reporting/101693 "2025-01-31T19:47:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-current-active-alarms-on-reporting/101693/1 "2025-01-31T19:47:24Z")

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How this option works? Is there a better way to display the current active alarms on the system on reporting?

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**Author:** ![kvane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kvane/32/22228_2.png) [@kvane](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kvane)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/show-current-active-alarms-on-reporting/101693/2 "2025-02-01T00:16:49Z")

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The property is mentioned here:

> **[Alarm Journal Query | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/reporting/report-data/alarm-journal-query)**
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> The Alarm Journal Query data source is a simple way to access Alarming data within a report. It can pull from either the alarm journal data in the database, or the current live events that would show up in the Alarm Status Table, depending on if the...

> The Alarm Journal Query data source can pull from either the alarm journal data in the database, or **the current live events that would show up in the Alarm Status Table** , depending on if the "Use current status instead of history" option is checked.

What you have shown here is the built-in method to do this, alternatively you can use scripting and the [system.alarm.queryStatus()](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/scripting-functions/system-alarm/system-alarm-queryStatus) function in a Script Data Source to access alarm events.