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Monitoring of bad tags

  • September 10, 2025
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I need help to set up a monitor and an automated e-mail when a tag goes bad.

Not when the the tag goes to zero or any other defined value, but when it’s missing completely.

Best answer by Kevin

Hi there! Thank you for your question about tag bad value. Here is a link to another post where you can find the answer to your inquiry. I also suggest adding this as a Feature Idea in the Community.

Checking for bad tags

Thanks,

Kevin

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Kevin
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  • September 11, 2025

Hi there! Thank you for your question about tag bad value. Here is a link to another post where you can find the answer to your inquiry. I also suggest adding this as a Feature Idea in the Community.

Checking for bad tags

Thanks,

Kevin


  • Employee
  • September 11, 2025

I can think of one workaround that might enable your use case, but it should be considered only if getting the information from your data source using ODBC isn’t a problem.

How?
We should be able to create context items through a separate context connection, via generic ODBC/JDBC. This connection would specifically request the metadata state. Once a tag goes bad, it should create context items for those periods.

I.e.:

What do you think?