Put check in maintenance

I would like updown to check every minutes, BUT notify me when it's down more than 20 minutes in a row, or, allow specific allowed down time, for backup reasons for example (once a week)

Or to not monitor during certain times (like maintenance windows)

Great idea, it would be extra awesome if you can put in the periodical maintenance window.

I'm currently evaluating this product and this is a must have feature.

I need this feature as well. I need a way to measure and report on unplanned outages because it's part of our SLA. Is there any way to at least adjust the uptime stats to compensate for planned downtime?

I believe the declination of this idea should be reconsidered. For business users, it's important being able to report uptime outside of planned maintenance. Disabling monitoring manually for each maintenance window is not only impractical, it also removes the awareness and metrics offered by the monitoring plan. I want monitoring running during the maintenance, but to be able to flag a particular downtime interval after the fact to indicate it should not count towards uptime recorded. I came here looking for this particular feature and will have to keep looking, at least for now, despite what otherwise looks like an attractive service.

This was the biggest thing we missed when evaluating this product. Being able to publish this would drastically help add context to the outages and also be a great place to post them for companies that host their own web sites. I have attached a quick sketch of what I think would be most helpful in our use case. In the example, when the window is over it would automatically move to the bottom of the page. It would also be nice to manually add past windows for emergency maintenance that was not previously scheduled.

@Adrien looks like second link there is admin-specific, but user-facing version appears to be https://updown.canny.io/general/p/allow-text-updates-for-incidents

that's a great idea! We really need this feature since we have scheduled maintenance times and now they're counted as "un-available" times

Hi,

first of all, i like it really.

I'd like if i could add expected downtimes to a check.

Expected recurring downtimes: e.g. I check the internet connectivity of my customers and in Germany many internet service providers have a forced separation of the internet connectivity. It's always at a fix time, so the recurring downtime is plannable.

One-time: a way to just add an upcoming downtime. I know, this is possible with just pause the check, but not plannable.

Thanks!

Edit:

I forgot an important detail.

In the period of an expected downtime there just shouldn't come any notifications.

For the meanwhile, you can easily fix this using the API ( https://updown.io/api ):

1. Get all your checks using https://updown.io/api/checks?api-key=:api_key

2. Loop through them and call

   curl -X PUT -d 'enabled=false' https://updown.io/api/checks/:token?api-key=:api_key

to disable them.

1. To re-enable, repeat step 2 with enabled=true.

This is a simple example, you can easily extend this by only handling checks that weren't disabled before, or you can run this on set times using a cron job if you have a set maintenance window.

I like updown.io but not this feature is messing up our SLAs and causing alert fatigue so we've switching to an alternative, probably New Relic Synthetics.

I don't want to settle for scripting the API myself as there is a risk a monitor will be left disabled.

This is already possible, both single-side and multi-site status page have the X-Frame-Options header remove to permit iframe embedding. With

+1 it would be nice to have one-off maintenance (migrations, upgrades, ...) and repeating maintenance on a schedule (backups, credential rotations, ...) during which downtimes are ignored

Already added comment in - https://updown.canny.io/general/p/allow-text-updates-for-incidents

This is a feature we would pay more money for.

One of our web apps reboots every single night at midnight, would be nice to schedule a mute window.

Martijn We would like something similar too. For some servers we have a maintenance windows (e.g. last Sunday of every month from 9PM - 10PM) and it would be awesome if updown.io would be paused automatically during that time slot.

Hi, Adrien Rey-Jarthon . I am not sure if it would be a feature request or a simple clarification. Currently we use API in a Github Action to mute alerts when maintenance window is turned on when deploying to Heroku. We use muting feature. This is all fine and dandy, but one thing that I noticed - looks like maintenance periods are counted towards downtime in our uptime metric.

Question: If I would switch to disabling the check instead, would that make sure that maintenance windows are not counted towards downtime?

Possible feature request: If not doable today, would be great to track two uptime metrics - the one that ignores maintenance (let's say the check was muted) and the one that does not. This way we could track deployment effect on the availability.

Cheers, Edgars

Adrien Rey-Jarthon thanks for the reply, I will look into changing our integration to disable the checks instead of muting it.