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title: "Alarm Journal Query"
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# Alarm Journal Query

> <IUCard title="Alarm Journal Query" link="https://www.inductiveuniversity.com/video/alarm-journal-query/7.9" />
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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 both the alarm journal data in the database as well as the current live events that would show up in the Alarm Status Table.

![](AlarmJournal.png)

Once created, the new Data Source will expose many alarming related keys in the Design Panel's Key Browser

![](keybrowser.png)

### Properties
The Alarm Journal Query has a few properties that can be configured to filter the types of events you see in the returned dataset.

|Properties|Description|
|:---|:---|
|Start Date and End Date|The time range from which to pull Alarms from. **Start Date** being the furthest date in the past, while **End Date** is the most recent date.|
Include Events|Allows you to select which type of events will be returned. The options are SystemClearedActiveAcknowledgmentThere is also a **Use current status instead of history** checkbox. As the text implies, this will use the current alarm status |instead of querying from an Alarm Journal profile. Enabling this checkbox will cause the data source to ignore the Journal Name property on the right.|
|Source Filter|Will filter the alarms based on the source path. Multiple filters can be specified by separating them with a comma, and they accept the wildcard ( * ) symbol. Works in the same way that the filters on the [Alarm Status Table](alarming\alarm-status\alarm-status-general-filtering.md#source-path) component work.|
|Provider Filter|Will filter the alarms based on the Tag Provider that they originate from. Can specify multiple filters by separating them with a comma.|
Display Path Filter|Will filter the alarms based on the display path. Multiple filters can be specified by separating them with a comma, and they accept the wildcard ( * ) symbol. Works in the same way that the filters on the [Alarm Status Table](alarming\alarm-status\alarm-status-general-filtering.md#filtering-on-source-path-and-display-path) component work.|
|Search Filter|Will filter alarms by searching for the given string in both the display path and source path. Accepts comma separated paths.|
|Minimum Priority and Maximum Priority|The minimum and maximum priority of alarms that will be returned.|
|Journal Name|Located on the right side, this property allows you to specify the Journal that will be used for the query.|