# Tag Metadata not coming through remote history provider

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-metadata-not-coming-through-remote-history-provider/116383>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 13, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-metadata-not-coming-through-remote-history-provider/116383 "2026-07-13T21:07:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-metadata-not-coming-through-remote-history-provider/116383/1 "2026-07-13T21:07:26Z")

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I'm configuring the Ignition-Canary module and am running into an issue with metadata fields. When I create a tag on my cloud gateway which has the Canary module installed and I set the history to Canary it successfully brings across its metadata for ranges, units, and description fields. However when I create a tag on my site gateway and point it to the remote history provider it does not bring across the metadata. I see the values logging with timestamps but no properties come across.

I can't find any config properties to enable this and I'm hoping this is not a limitation of using the gateway network / remote history provider?

Ignition 8.1.48

Edit: Reviewing the 8.3 docs they added a include meta data field in the history settings ... guessing that means I'm SOL and it wasn't part of it in 8.1?

Network:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/8/6898be4cd5173057c1c9dac6df7f476d4af8806d.png)