<b>Q: How do I stop monitors from paging during planned maintenance?</b>

<b>Q: How do I stop monitors from paging during planned maintenance?</b>

A: Use a scheduled maintenance window (most monitors call it exactly that) to suppress alerts for the affected checks during a set time. It mutes paging but, importantly, keeps recording state so your timeline stays accurate.

Two things that separate a clean setup from a messy one:
— Suppress alerts, don't pause the monitor entirely. A paused monitor records no data, so a real outage that overruns your window goes completely unseen.
— Exclude maintenance windows from your SLA/uptime calculation, so planned work doesn't unfairly dent your numbers.

Likely follow-up: set the window slightly wider than your planned work, maybe 15 minutes of buffer on each side, since deploys always run long. And remember to update your status page so customers aren't surprised.

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