Maintenance periods

Maintenance periods

Maintenance periods in Uptrends let you schedule planned downtime for your monitored systems. If your team performs routine maintenance on a regular basis, your systems may be temporarily unavailable or slower than usual. This can cause monitors to trigger alerts even though the downtime is expected.

By setting up maintenance periods for your monitors, you can configure the specific dates and times in advance, and decide whether to disable your alerts or the monitors temporarily to avoid receiving errors.

Maintenance periods configuration overview

The Maintenance periods configuration overview lists all maintenance periods in your account, allowing you to review, delete unwanted periods, and perform cleanups.

To view all scheduled maintenance periods, navigate using one of the following paths:

• Go to Account setup > Maintenance periods.
• Go to a monitor. In the Maintenance periods tab > click Select all similar periods.

Set up maintenance period

You create maintenance periods on a per-monitor basis. To set up your planned maintenance:

1. Go to the monitor you want to add a maintenance period to.
2. Click Maintenance periods.
3. Click Add new maintenance period.
4. Provide the recurrence period: once, daily, weekly, or monthly.
5. Provide the maintenance description.
6. Provide the date and time range.
7. Provide the maintenance type:

• If you select Disable notifications only, monitoring continues and any errors that occur are still displayed in the event log, but no alerts are sent.
• If you select Disable monitoring entirely, no monitoring takes place, so no errors are logged and no alerts are generated.

8. Click Set.
9. Click Save to confirm your changes.

You can select specific days for your recurring schedules. For example, to set a maintenance period on the last day of each month, select monthly recurrence and choose day 31. This applies to the last day of every month, even in months with fewer than 31 days.

Manage maintenance periods

Clean up and delete maintenance periods

Over time, old maintenance periods can accumulate, making it harder to quickly view upcoming or active maintenance periods. Clean up the list on the Maintenance periods page to keep your account organized. Filter the list first, so only the maintenance periods you want to remove are deleted.

Two cleanup options are available. Both apply only to the maintenance periods in the filtered list:

• Clean up — deletes past one-time maintenance periods. Recurring maintenance periods are not deleted.
• Delete all — deletes all maintenance periods, including recurring and upcoming maintenance periods.

To clean up or delete maintenance periods:

1. Go to Account setup or Configure > Maintenance periods.
2. Filter the list to the maintenance periods you want to delete. You can combine the following filters to make a more specific selection:

• Monitor or monitor group — use the monitor filter in the top-right corner of the dashboard.
• Period type — use the dropdown menu to show one-time periods, recurring periods, or all maintenance periods.
• Monitor name or maintenance period description — use the search field.
• Similar maintenance periods column — click Select all similar periods for a maintenance period to show all periods with the same attributes, such as start time, end time, start date, end date, and recurrence.

3. Click Clean up or Delete all. A message displays, showing the number of maintenance periods that will be deleted. 4. Click OK to delete the maintenance periods.

For example, to remove a weekly maintenance period from all monitors in a monitor group, select the monitor group in the monitor filter, click Select all similar periods for one of the weekly maintenance periods, and then click Delete all.

Apply maintenance periods to other monitors

To apply maintenance periods to other monitors in bulk, go to the Maintenance periods page and click Apply to monitors for the maintenance period you want to apply.

You can also use a monitor template pre-configured with a maintenance period and select which monitors to apply it to. For more details on how to use a monitor template, see Monitor templates.