Maintenance windows

A maintenance window is a scheduled period during which ZeroDrop keeps monitoring but holds back notifications. Use it whenever you expect a check to go red on purpose, such as a deploy, a database migration, or a planned outage at an upstream provider.

Why use one instead of disabling a check

Disabling a check stops probing entirely, so you lose the data for that period and have to remember to turn it back on. A maintenance window keeps the check running, so you still get latency history and can see what happened. It just suppresses the alerts so nobody gets paged for expected downtime.

Scheduling a window

On the Maintenance page, create a window with a start and end time:

• Times are interpreted in your account timezone (set on Settings), so the times you enter are the times you mean.
• The window can be in the future, so you can schedule it ahead of a planned change.

While the current time falls inside an active window, notifications that would otherwise fire are suppressed. Once the window ends, normal alerting resumes automatically.

After the window

When a window closes, ZeroDrop evaluates the check against its live results as usual. If the service is healthy again, no alert was needed. If it's genuinely still down, you'll be notified as normal. The window only covers the time you scheduled.

You can delete a window at any time; the console confirms first.