Pause monitor (maintenance, holidays)
If you are going on holiday, planning maintenance or temporarily shutting down a service, you do not have to delete the monitor. Just pause it - the checks stop, no alerts are sent, but your measurement history stays.
When pausing is useful
- Holiday or short downtime: the service is temporarily off and you do not want to receive alerts about an "outage" that is actually planned.
- Migration or rebuild: you are moving the site to a new server and during the move the monitor would report errors.
- Temporarily unneeded monitor: you do not want to delete it and lose the measurement history, you just want to put it to "sleep" for a while.
How to pause
In the monitor detail, top right, click Pause. The state changes to "paused" and the checks stop immediately.
How to resume
In the same place, click Start. The first check runs within 1 minute and the monitor returns to its normal interval according to your plan.
What happens during a pause
- No new check records
- No alerts via Telegram or e-mail
- Availability (uptime %) is not calculated - in reports it appears as "paused"
- On the status page the monitor shows as "Pending" (or keeps its last state)
- The history of previous checks stays untouched
Scheduled maintenance vs. pause
For recurring maintenance windows (for example every Sunday 03:00-04:00) it is better to use scheduled maintenance - it repeats according to the set schedule, turns on and off automatically and the information is shown on the status page.
A pause is suitable for one-off situations (short downtime, holiday).
Tip: A pause does not free up extra space in your plan - the monitor still counts towards your monitor limit. If you will never need the monitor again and want to free up space, delete it instead. If you just do not need it for a while, use a pause and your history stays preserved.