Updated 2026-06-28
Planned work — a deploy, a database migration, infrastructure maintenance — shouldn't set off the same alerts as a real outage. A maintenance window tells Status about the work ahead of time.
Creating a window
A window has a name, a start and end time, and a set of checks it applies to — you can pin it to specific checks or apply it to your whole account. Optionally, a window can also recur on a schedule (for example, weekly) if the work is routine.
What a window does
- Suppresses alerts by default for its checks, for its duration — a check can still go down during the window (and this is recorded in its history), but your alert channels won't fire.
- Shows on your status page by default, so visitors see a scheduled maintenance banner instead of an unexplained outage. Subscribers to that status page are also notified.
Both behaviors can be turned off per window if you'd rather keep monitoring fully live, or keep a particular window private.
When a window ends
Monitoring and alerting resume automatically the moment the window's end time passes — there's nothing to manually re-enable.
How many windows you can create
Your plan sets a limit on the number of maintenance windows you can have. See Choosing a plan for specifics.