# How to get Description value

**URL:** https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/how-to-get-description-value/6716
**Category:** Help!
**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/how-to-get-description-value/6716 "2021-07-09T11:26:11Z")
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### Author: ![Rend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rend](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/Rend)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/how-to-get-description-value/6716/1 "2021-07-09T11:26:11Z")

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Need help! Can’t manage to get description of frontend or backend section via RunAPI or DATA-PLANE-API. I see it on the statistic page next to PROXY name. Do I have to parse config for that or just not enough attentive?

Example:

```auto
frontend Bla-bla-bla
   description <some-info> # <-- need this

```