Schedule monitor downtimes to specify times that your synthetic monitors cease alerting, while still preserving your SLA report metrics. Monitor downtimes are ideal for:
- Routine maintenance
- Planned outages
- Deployments
- Service interruptions
Important
During synthetic monitor downtimes, your selected monitors stop running until their scheduled end time. To temporarily disable without pausing your monitors, mute them instead.
Monitor downtime tips
If the start and end times of a monitor downtime span midnight, the monitor downtime will last until the next day at the end time specified. For example, a start time of 11:30PM and an end time of 5:00AM would start on the day listed and last until 5:00AM the next day.
Create recurring monitor downtimes
Tip
The ability to add, edit, or delete monitor downtimes depends on your access to features.
Create recurring monitor downtimes for routine monitor maintenance or regularly scheduled outages. To create a recurring monitor downtime:
- Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetic monitoring > Monitor downtime.
- Select Create monitor downtime.
- Specify a name for the monitor downtime.
- Select a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency. Choose additional scheduling options, such as day of the week, time of day, and how long the window lasts.
- Select the monitors that you would like to be included in the monitor downtime. There is no maximum for the amount of monitors that can be selected.
- Select Create.
Create a one-time monitor downtime
For spontaneous maintenance or service interruptions, create one-time monitor downtimes that will not reoccur. To create a non-recurring monitor downtime:
- Specify a name for the new monitor downtime.
- Select once for the frequency, along with the date and start time for the monitor downtime.
- Select the monitors to include in the monitor downtime. There is no maximum for the amount of monitors that can be selected.
- Select Create.
Delete a monitor downtime
Tip
If you are unable to delete a window, check your permissions.
To delete an existing monitor downtime:
- Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetic monitoring > Monitor downtime.
- Locate the monitor downtime to be deleted in the index.
- Select the ellipsis icon, and then Delete.
Edit a monitor downtime
Tip
If you are unable to edit a window, check your permissions.
To edit an existing monitor downtime:
- Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetic monitoring > Monitor downtime.
- Locate the monitor downtime to be edited in the monitor downtime index.
- Select the ellipsis icon for the downtime you want to edit.
- Edit the name or frequency of the monitor downtime. To remove a monitor from the list of targets, locate the monitor in the list of Selected targets and select the remove icon next to the monitor.
- Once you've finished editing, select Save.