SolvedUptime Monitoring
Where is the pause button for a monitor?
Asked by Sofia AlmeidaMay 24, 2026
We have a maintenance window this weekend and I want to stop one monitor from alerting during it. I found pause and resume for heartbeats but I cannot find the same thing for a normal uptime monitor. Do I have to delete it and recreate it after?
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Selin YıldızMonoDuty Support EngineerMay 25, 2026
Hello Sofia, please do not delete it, you would lose all its history. Monitors are paused differently from heartbeats: instead of a dedicated pause action, you edit the monitor and set it to inactive. The system stamps the pause time for you and stops scheduling checks. When you set it back to active, checks resume and the pause stamp is cleared.
So for your maintenance window:
1. Open the monitor, set it to inactive, save. Checks stop immediately, no new incidents will be opened for it.
2. Do your maintenance.
3. Set it back to active. The next scheduler pass, within a minute, picks it up again.
Two things to keep in mind. If an incident is already open for that monitor when you pause it, pausing does not close it, so resolve it manually if it is stale. And when the monitor comes back and its first check succeeds after having been down, any incidents still open for it are auto-resolved.
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Sofia AlmeidaMay 26, 2026
Perfect, that keeps the history. Thanks.