# Why application data is shown as historical?

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**Category:** TTN Network and Services\
**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/why-application-data-is-shown-as-historical/8793 "2017-08-03T09:18:49Z")\
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This is only shown for some applications. From Slack, [September 26th](https://thethingsnetwork.slack.com/archives/C1D8GQMU5/p1506412581000066):

> @htdvisser
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> > If you have the “Data Storage” integration enabled, the console will try to fetch the latest messages from the storage.

See [https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/storage/](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/storage/)

So, those are recent messages that arrived before you actually opened TTN Console.

As the Data Storage integration only stores the application data and a timestamp, you’ll not see any metadata such as the counter, port, data rate, or details about the gateway(s). That’s why it will show _“This message was retreived from historical data, some information might be missing.”_ instead.

For the Data page of applications that do not have the Data Storage Integration enabled, and for a gateway’s Traffic page, TTN Console will only show messages that arrived since you opened TTN Console.

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