Synthetic Monitoring
Maintenance Windows
2 min
a maintenance window is a scheduled period of time during which monitors continue to run normally, but their incidents are handled differently to avoid unnecessary noise during a maintenance window, the monitor does not send any notifications for incidents that are triggered does not count downtime that occurs during the window toward the monitor’s success rate percentage marks incidents that happen during the maintenance window so they can be distinguished from regular production incidents maintenance windows overview list the overview page displays all created maintenance windows with key details for quick management name the user defined name of the maintenance window description brief description explaining the purpose of the maintenance window type indicates whether the window is recurring or one time schedule shows the configured start and end time period targets number of monitors assigned to this maintenance window status current status indicating if the window is active or paused creating a maintenance window 1\ navigate to the maintenance window overview page in the synthetic monitoring module 2\ click on create maintenance window 3\ configure the following settings name enter a name for the maintenance window description provide a short description of the maintenance purpose timezone select the timezone for the scheduled maintenance period one time schedule a single maintenance period for a specific date and time recurring set up automatically repeating maintenance on a regular cycle start time define the date and time when the maintenance window begins end time specify the date and time when the maintenance window ends frequency (recurring only) choose daily, weekly, or monthly recurrence schedule select monitors assign one or more monitors to apply the maintenance window to 4\ click save to create the new maintenance window