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Try to export trend as CSV file. But not complete it

Try to export trend as CSV but screen still show EXPORTING… over 10-15 mins not complete it.

Canary/Axiom to Maximo

Hello, all. I am interested if there is any documentation (or if anyone has achieved) how to connect Canary/Axiom to IBM Maximo. What I am interested in doing is if a Boolean changes state (let's…

RSLinx and FactoryTalk SE

Hey everyone, Has anyone connected Canary to RSLinx Enterprise and the FactoryTalk View Site Edition Suite?

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Setting the Endpoint in the Excel Add-in

Where does the Set Endpoint configuration get saved to?

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Duplicate Events

Is it possible to create one event and duplicate it amongst other asset models?

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Switching Tags in Axiom Based on Condition

For future development, will there be a chance to reference 2 or more tags in Axiom? Being able to use logical formulas such 'IF statement' would be helpful.

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Sending Data to PowerBI

Is there a way to connect Canary to PowerBI?

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Web API Call/GET with Power Automate / Sharepoint

Hello. Is it possible to simply get data tag from Canary at a certain time into something like Microsoft Power Automate or Sharepoint? If so, how?

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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