Pausing and Resuming a Monitor

Pausing and Resuming a Monitor

Pausing a monitor temporarily stops PulseAPI from checking it. No checks run, no incidents are created, and no alerts are sent while a monitor is paused.

When to Pause Instead of Delete

Pause a monitor when the downtime is intentional and temporary:

  • Scheduled maintenance on the endpoint
  • Deployment window where the endpoint will be unavailable
  • Decommissioning an endpoint that may come back
  • Testing infrastructure changes

Delete a monitor only when you no longer need to track that endpoint at all.

Note: For planned, recurring maintenance windows, consider using Planned Outages instead of manually pausing. Planned outages suppress incidents during a defined window and automatically resume normal monitoring afterward — no manual resume step needed.

How to Pause a Monitor

  1. In the left sidebar, click Monitors.
  2. Find the monitor you want to pause.
  3. Click the monitor to open its detail page.
  4. Click the Pause button (or the ... menu → Pause Monitor).

The monitor status badge changes to Paused immediately. Checks stop within the next check cycle.

How to Resume a Monitor

  1. Go to Monitors and find the paused monitor (it will show a Paused badge).
  2. Click the monitor to open it.
  3. Click Resume (or the ... menu → Resume Monitor).

Checks resume on the normal schedule starting from the next interval.

What Happens to Incidents While Paused

  • No new incidents are created while the monitor is paused
  • Any open incidents that existed before pausing remain open — they are not auto-resolved when you pause
  • When you resume, check results begin evaluating against alert rules again as normal

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