Monitors
Maintenance windows
Suppress alerts during planned work so your uptime isn't dinged.
When you deploy, migrate or do scheduled maintenance, you don't want a flood of alerts — or a dent in your uptime numbers. Maintenance windows handle that.
Scheduling maintenance
- Pick a start time and duration with a custom time picker.
- During the window, alerts for the affected monitors are suppressed, and the downtime is treated as planned.
- On a status page, scheduled maintenance is shown to your customers ahead of time, so the work is expected rather than alarming.
Maintenance vs. pausing
| Effect | |
|---|---|
| Maintenance window | Checks keep running; alerts are suppressed for a planned period; customers can be informed. |
| Pause | Checks stop entirely, indefinitely, until you resume. |
Use a maintenance window for planned work with a known end time, and pause for a monitor you're stepping away from indefinitely.