Back in March, we introduced Development mode for Professional, Business, and Enterprise accounts. Development mode lets you modify and manually test monitors without them counting towards your plan’s allotment of monitors, nor do they affect your SLA or uptime data. Now we’ve added the next step in safely bringing a new monitor live, Staging mode.
Although Development mode lets you work out most of the kinks in your monitors, Production mode may reveal other issues not evident in the controlled environment of development mode. Moving a monitor (especially Transaction or Multi-step API monitors) can have a negative impact on your data due to unforeseen issues you might want to avoid. To help you out with transitioning from Development mode to Production mode, we’ve added Staging mode. Staging mode lets you put a monitor into the production environment without the monitor affecting your SLA or Uptime data.
Monitors in Staging mode do count towards your plan’s monitor allowances, so you must have enough available monitors to bring monitors in Development mode to Staging.
We have information in our Knowledge Base where you can learn more about Monitor Modes, and Staging’s effect on your data.