# Alert api does not update EvalData values when in "alerting" state

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/alert-api-does-not-update-evaldata-values-when-in-alerting-state/7259>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [May 7, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alert-api-does-not-update-evaldata-values-when-in-alerting-state/7259 "2018-05-07T09:13:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![stuartmclean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@stuartmclean](https://community.grafana.com/u/stuartmclean)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alert-api-does-not-update-evaldata-values-when-in-alerting-state/7259/1 "2018-05-07T09:13:00Z")

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e.g. the value when running “test rule” in the web console displays “1.76” but in the api the value is locked on “1.70” - which is the value which first triggered the alert.  
It also means that if a second server triggers the same alert only the first is shown in the api response.  
This seems to have happened to all our alerts since upgrading to grafana 5 (we are now on 5.1.0)

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**Author:** ![stuartmclean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@stuartmclean](https://community.grafana.com/u/stuartmclean)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alert-api-does-not-update-evaldata-values-when-in-alerting-state/7259/2 "2018-05-07T14:57:14Z")

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I am guessing this is because of the “multiple series” notes [here](http://docs.grafana.org/alerting/rules/) - which generally makes sense when it comes to sending notifications - - but I still don’t see why the api response could not be updated.

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**Author:** ![stuartmclean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@stuartmclean](https://community.grafana.com/u/stuartmclean)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/alert-api-does-not-update-evaldata-values-when-in-alerting-state/7259/3 "2018-05-07T15:02:53Z")

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Filed an [issue](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11849) but it was closed - not sure if the feature mentioned [here](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6041) is really what I’m looking for though.