Monitor downtimes: Disable monitoring during scheduled maintenance times

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

Create recurring monitor downtimes

Create recurring monitor downtimes for routine monitor maintenance or regularly scheduled outages. To create a recurring monitor downtime:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetics > Monitor downtime.
2. Select Create monitor downtime.
3. Specify a name for the monitor downtime.
4. 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 will last.
5. 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.
6. 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:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetics > Monitor downtime.
2. Select Create monitor downtime.
3. Specify a name for the new monitor downtime.
4. Select once for the frequency, along with the date and start time for the monitor downtime.
5. Select the monitors to include in the monitor downtime. There is no maximum for the amount of monitors that can be selected.
6. Select Create.

View downtime monitors

Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetics > (select your monitor) > Summary. When a monitor downtime occurs, it will be visible on your Summary page within the Load time chart as a yellow vertical line. To see which monitor downtime occurred within the chart, hover over the yellow line to view the monitor downtime name.

You can view additional details in the Results and Resources sections.

Delete a monitor downtime

To delete an existing monitor downtime:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetics > Monitor downtime.
2. Locate the monitor downtime to be deleted in the index.
3. Select the ellipsis icon, and then Delete.

Edit a monitor downtime

To edit an existing monitor downtime:

1. Go to one.newrelic.com > Synthetics > Monitor downtime.
2. Locate the monitor downtime to be edited in the monitor downtime index.
3. Select the ellipsis icon for the downtime you want to edit.
4. 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.
5. Once you've finished editing, select Save.

For more help

Additional documentation resources include:

• Alerting for synthetic monitoring (receive notifications when a monitor fails)
• Private locations (extend synthetic monitoring coverage to new geographical locations)