Q: How do I stop my monitor from paging me during planned deploys?

Q: How do I stop my monitor from paging me during planned deploys?

A: Use scheduled maintenance windows, but use them surgically. Mute only the specific checks affected, for a tight time box, and let the window auto-expire. The danger isn't suppressing the right alert, it's forgetting to turn monitoring back on and running blind for a week.

Better than blanket muting:
— Keep a post-deploy verification check that runs the moment the window closes, so a deploy that broke something gets caught immediately instead of at the next routine interval.
— Prefer short, auto-expiring windows over open-ended "disable until I re-enable."

Follow-up for CI/CD users: wire maintenance windows into your pipeline via the monitor's API, so the deploy itself opens and closes the mute. Manual muting is where forgotten, silently-disabled monitors come from. Automate the on switch as carefully as the off.

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