If you have a regularly scheduled maintenance task — a nightly job, a weekly deploy, a monthly database backup — you can create a recurring maintenance window instead of scheduling each one manually.

Steps

1. In the left sidebar, click Maintenance.
2. Click New Planned Outage.
3. Fill in the Title, Start Time, End Time, and Affected Monitors as you would for a one-time window (see Creating a Maintenance Window).
4. In the Recurrence field, select the repeat frequency:
   • Daily — repeats every day at the same time
   • Weekly — repeats on the same day of the week
   • Monthly — repeats on the same date each month
5. Optionally, set a Recurrence End date — after which no more instances are created. Leave blank for indefinite recurrence.
6. Click Create Planned Outage.

How Recurring Windows Work

PulseAPI creates maintenance window instances in advance based on the recurrence pattern. Each instance covers the same duration (end time minus start time) on the recurring schedule.

For example, a weekly window from Saturday 02:00 AM to 03:00 AM creates a 1-hour window every Saturday at 2am in your local timezone.

Editing Recurring Windows

When you edit a recurring window, you can choose to:

• Edit this occurrence only — changes apply only to the specific instance you're editing
• Edit this and all future occurrences — changes apply from this point forward

See Editing and Canceling a Maintenance Window.

Stopping a Recurring Window

To stop a recurring series:

1. Open the maintenance window.
2. Click Edit → set a Recurrence End date of today (or the date of the last instance you want to keep).
3. Save.

Or delete the recurring window entirely to remove all future instances.

Related Articles

• What Are Planned Outages?
• Creating a Maintenance Window
• Editing and Canceling a Maintenance Window

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