Maintenance Windows

Schedule planned downtime so Tracevium stays quiet when you expect things to be unavailable.

What maintenance windows do

During an active maintenance window, Tracevium continues to run checks but:

Failing checks do not open new incidents.
Notifications are not sent for failures or recoveries.
The public status page shows Maintenance instead of degraded or down.
Checks during the window are excluded from uptime calculations.

Checks still run during maintenance windows. When the window ends, Tracevium has fresh data and can immediately detect whether the service is back up — without waiting for the next scheduled check.

Creating a maintenance window

Go to your project → Maintenance Windows → Schedule maintenance. You will need to provide:

Title — a short description (e.g. "Database migration"). Shown on the status page.
Start time — when the window begins (UTC). You can schedule windows in the future.
End time — when the window ends. Windows cannot overlap.

Recurring windows

For regularly scheduled maintenance (e.g. weekly database vacuuming every Sunday at 02:00 UTC), create a recurring maintenance window. Tracevium will automatically activate it at each scheduled time.

Editing and cancelling

Upcoming windows can be edited or cancelled at any time. If a window is currently active, cancelling it ends it immediately — checks resume contributing to uptime stats and incidents can open again from that point.

Impact on the status page

When a window is active, the project status page displays a Scheduled maintenance banner with the title and expected end time, so customers know downtime is planned rather than an unplanned outage.

Required permissions

Creating, editing, and cancelling maintenance windows requires admin access or above. Developers and viewers can see scheduled windows but cannot modify them.