What is the difference between pausing checks and muting alerts?

Pausing stops monitoring checks entirely during the maintenance window. Muting continues running checks and can create incidents, but suppresses all notification channels.

Will maintenance windows affect my uptime and SLA percentages?

Not necessarily, if you pause monitors planned maintenance windows are excluded from downtime calculations, ensuring your SLA reports and availability statistics stay accurate.

How are maintenance windows displayed on status pages?

When linked to a status page, Phare displays an upcoming maintenance notice in advance, and automatically switches to an active maintenance banner when the window starts.

Can I target specific monitors or an entire project?

You can select exactly which monitors are covered by a maintenance window. Unaffected monitors will continue normal monitoring and alerting without interruption.

Can I complete or cancel a maintenance window early?

If your maintenance work finishes ahead of schedule or gets postponed, you can mark the window as completed or cancel it with a single click, immediately resuming standard monitoring.

Phare Uptime

Scheduled maintenance that keeps your users in the loop

Item: Phare Uptime Monitoring
Author: Dominik Sumer

Plan downtime in advance, broadcast notices to your status page, and mute pager noise until the work is done.

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Painless scheduled maintenance

Plan ahead, silence unnecessary alert spam, and communicate transparently during updates.

Phare dashboard showing maintenance windows

Pause or mute alerts: Choose between pausing checks completely or muting alert notifications while continuing to gather metrics.
Publish to status pages: Broadcast upcoming and active maintenance banners automatically to keep your customers informed before you deploy.
Protect your SLA metrics: Ensure scheduled maintenance does not count against your uptime SLA numbers or public availability track record.
Scope to specific monitors: Target specific endpoints, APIs, or servers rather than silencing alerts for your entire infrastructure.
Automate recurring schedules: Schedule recurring regular database cleanups or weekly deployments so you never have to remember to silence alerts manually.

“Phare makes me feel more professional in how I communicate Vemetric’s service health. Multi-region monitoring, SMS alerts, smooth incident management, and a clean status page help me keep customers informed.”

Dominik Sumer

Founder, Vemetric

Industry: Web & Product Analytics

Team size: 1

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Would you be interested by website uptime monitoring, collaborative incident management, status pages, or alerting?

Monitoring you can rely on

Know the moment your websites or APIs misbehaves. Monitor all your endpoints with precision, from almost anywhere on Earth.

Learn more about website monitoring

: Monitor HTTP(s) and TCP endpoints, add custom headers and set a unique user agent.
: Choose from 11+ locations in Europe, Asia, America and Oceania.
: Monitor critical resources every 30 seconds and less important ones every hour
: Manage SSL certificates and get alerted on discovery and before expiration

Phare uptime dashboard showing and uptime monitoring statistics chart

Multi-player incident management

Create, track, and communicate incidents with your team and customers.

Learn more about incident management

: Get automatic incident detection for a wide range of issues with AI summaries and post-mortem.
: Add comments for your pals, and publish incident updates to keep your customers in the loop.
: Keep things tidy with an extensive event timeline of all events, updates, and comments.

Phare dashboard showing an incident timeline

Conversational status pages

Tell your users what’s up, or down. Share clear, branded updates that make even outages look good.

Learn more about status pages

: Create a branded status page that runs on your own domain, or one provided by Phare.
: Control access to your status page by IP address, token, or password.
: Let users subscribe to real-time update via RSS, Atom and Slack subscriptions.
: Be nice to the planet with the most eco-friendly status page, rated with an A+ perfect score.

Alerting that delivers

No more alert spam. Just smart, flexible notifications. Get the right alerts, to the right place, at the right time.

Learn more about alerting

: Granularly choose which events are relevant for you and where to send them.
: Rate limit notifications to reduce spam and postpone low-priority notification during sleep hours.
: Get notified with an aggressive retry policy on all notification channels to ensure delivery during outages.

Phare dashboard showing how alert rules are created

“Phare provides a nice and clean UI, actually the best that I have seen for a monitoring tool so far. But you got many more features, like a status page with custom domain, own alert rules and alerting from different regions.”

Adriaan Wind

CTO & Co-Founder, Anny

Industry: Software as a Services

Team size: 10-50

Frequently asked questions

You could not find the answer to your question? Ask support.

What is the difference between pausing checks and muting alerts?: Pausing stops monitoring checks entirely during the maintenance window. Muting continues running checks and can create incidents, but suppresses all notification channels.
Will maintenance windows affect my uptime and SLA percentages?: Not necessarily, if you pause monitors planned maintenance windows are excluded from downtime calculations, ensuring your SLA reports and availability statistics stay accurate.
How are maintenance windows displayed on status pages?: When linked to a status page, Phare displays an upcoming maintenance notice in advance, and automatically switches to an active maintenance banner when the window starts.
Can I target specific monitors or an entire project?: You can select exactly which monitors are covered by a maintenance window. Unaffected monitors will continue normal monitoring and alerting without interruption.
Can I complete or cancel a maintenance window early?: If your maintenance work finishes ahead of schedule or gets postponed, you can mark the window as completed or cancel it with a single click, immediately resuming standard monitoring.

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Phare dashboard showing uptime monitoring performance statistics