Alarm Maintenance Window

the maintenance window feature in the alarm module defines a scheduled time period during which monitoring alerts are temporarily suppressed, muted, or deprioritized while planned work is performed on a system purpose it prevents false or expected alerts during deployments, patches, upgrades, or infrastructure changes this avoids unnecessary escalations or incident tickets it also keeps monitoring reports clean and meaningful overview page the overview page displays all created maintenance windows with these details name name of the maintenance window description description of the maintenance window alarm rule targeted alarm rule to which the maintenance window applies matching label labels assigned to the maintenance window schedule start and end time period for the maintenance window status whether the maintenance window is active or paused creating a maintenance window 1\ navigate to the maintenance windows page in the alarm module 2\ click create maintenance window 3\ configure these details name name for the maintenance window description short description of the maintenance window timezone timezone for the scheduled maintenance window one time a one time maintenance window schedules a maintenance period only once for a specific date and time recurring a recurring maintenance window automatically repeats on a regular cycle, so you do not need to set it up each time additional settings include start time date and time when the maintenance window begins end time date and time when the maintenance window ends frequency available only for recurring windows; select daily, weekly, or monthly schedules label matchers use labels from alarms to target the maintenance window to specific services (e g , instance name, service name) 4\ click save to create the new maintenance window