Maintenance windows, so planned downtime never pages on-call.
Schedule a window before a deploy or a planned outage. Monitors keep running, but failures inside the window don't open incidents, don't page anyone, and don't count against your status-page uptime.
When this feature earns its keep.
Three concrete patterns. Use them as templates for your own setup.
Deploys and releases
A release takes the API down for a few minutes. Schedule a window over the rollout and the expected blips don't wake on-call or scar the uptime graph.
Vendor and infra maintenance
Your database or DNS provider has a scheduled failover at 3am. Cover it with a window so the brief unreachability is logged as planned, not as an outage you have to explain.
Recurring offline jobs
A nightly backup that intentionally stops a service. A recurring window means you set it once instead of muting alerts by hand every night.
How it works.
Create a window, choose the monitors it covers, set the time range. Inside the window, failures are still recorded — they just don't escalate.
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Schedule the window
Pick a one-off start and end, or a recurring schedule, and the monitors it applies to.
Monitors keep running
Probes and heartbeats don't pause — you keep the data. The window only stops failures from opening incidents or paging.
Uptime stays honest
Downtime inside a window is excluded from the status-page percentage, so planned work doesn't read as an outage to your customers.
FAQ
- Do monitors still run during a maintenance window?
- Yes. Probes and heartbeats keep running and every result is stored, so you keep full visibility. The window only changes what a failure does — no incident, no page, no uptime hit.
- Can a window recur?
- Yes. Set a one-off window for a deploy, or a recurring schedule for a nightly batch job or a weekly vendor maintenance slot.
- Does a window affect the public status page?
- Downtime inside a window is excluded from the uptime percentage and the day bars, so planned work doesn't show up as an outage to the people watching your status page.