Questions & Answers Category

Data aggretation tools

What tools are available for data analysis within Axiom? Looking for standard deviation, minimum, maximum, median, average, etc.

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Data migration- best practices

What is the best method / practice to migrate data from a Canary Historian located at plant's site to a cloud application? Also, would like to know what are the recommendations to backing up data.

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OPC Collector Sample Interval Preference

Configuring groups on the OPC collector gives a field for sample interval, but it appears this interval does not apply to all tags in the group depending on the source.…

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Canary as Site Historian vs others (Ignition, OSI PI, AWS)

For a Site Historian requirement, I am exploring the historians available in the market and understanding where each Historian fits well. Can anyone throw light on the following questions?…

Can Canary Historian Server software components run as docker containers?

Can each of the components like Receiver, Calc Server, Event Server, Axiom Core run in docker containers and communicate in a stateless fashion?

Required Operating System

For demo purposes, I want to host a small Canary historian app (500 tags) in Vultr. Here are the requirements that I found.…

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Analytics

Does Canary have in-database analytics capabilities?

Linux version of Canary Labs Data Collector

Does Canary Labs have an install of the data collector for Linux?

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Redundant Historian Architecture

What is the best solution for connecting a redundant pair of Ignition Gateways to two redundant Canary Historians? Should we just log historical data to both historians all the time or is there a…

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Excel Add-in tag search

Is there a way to exclude tags from search results in the Excel Add-in?

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Logging Data from InTouch OPC

How do I configure an InTouch OPC logging session to start automatically?

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Data Collection Protocol Support

What data protocols are supported by the Canary logging solutions?

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Events and Mirror service issues

Why won't Events work with DataSets that are part of a Mirror service?

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Can I write Events to an external SQL db?

Instead of writing Events to the included SQLite instance, can I write them to another SQL db?

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Canary Road Show Phoenix

During a breakout discussion on HMI The title of a book was mentioned. What is the name of that book?

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Canary WCF- API

What is the format of the WCF output? XML?

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Moving Virtual Views

To manage multiple Virtual Views, what is the best way to move a View from one server to another?

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Virtual Views performance considerations

Where does the burden (slower performance) occur? With number of asset types and instances or number of tags?

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Order of RegEx rules evaluation in Virtual Views

Does Virtual Views evaluate from the first rule and then work down the rules list?

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Virtual Views RegEx limits

Is there a limit on the number of RegEx statements?

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Procedure for Storing SQL Properties

Hello, Do you have a link to a procedure how to store custom properties to tags in views?

Adding Properties to Asset Models

When building an asset model, what are the best ways to attach additional properties to asset instances? For instance, if I have several pumps, how would I distinguish between different pump…

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Timestamp formats in historian vs what the client sees

Where does the time source from? How does the timestamp change from source to historian to client?

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SQL server installation required?

Where Canary uses SQL databases for Virtual Views configurations, calculation configurations, event monitoring, etc, is it necessary for me to install and license a particular SQL server?

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