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Maintenance Period

🔧 Maintenance Periods

A Maintenance Period temporarily prevents GermainUX from collecting selected metrics and executing selected actions, including alerts.

Maintenance Periods are typically used during planned upgrades, deployments, or infrastructure work. They prevent expected downtime from:

Reason

Triggering unnecessary alerts

Executing automated remediation actions

Affecting analytics, SLA calculations, or availability results

Maintenance Periods can run once or recur on a schedule.

⚙️ Configuration

Go to Germain Workspace > Left Menu > System > Maintenance.

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Workspace Field

Configuration Key

Description

Possible Values

Name

name

Unique name used to identify the Maintenance Period.

String

Duration

duration

Length of time the Maintenance Period remains active, in seconds.

Integer

Recurring

recurring

Determines whether the Maintenance Period runs once or follows a recurring schedule.

Boolean

Schedule

schedule

Specifies when the Maintenance Period begins.

Quartz CRON expression, including seconds

Actions

actions

Actions that must not execute while the Maintenance Period is active.

List of configured actions

📅 Configure a Weekly Maintenance Period

The following example creates a one-hour Maintenance Period that begins every Sunday at 1:00 AM.

  1. Go to Germain Workspace > Left Menu > System > Maintenance.

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  2. Click + to create a Maintenance Period.

  3. Enter a descriptive name.

  4. Set the duration to 3600 seconds.

  5. Enable Recurring.

  6. Configure the start time using either:

    • The Basic scheduling options, or

    • The Advanced CRON editor

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  7. Under Actions, select the actions that GermainUX should suppress during the Maintenance Period.

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  8. Save the configuration.

Schedules use the Quartz CRON format, which includes seconds. See this Quartz CRON expression reference for examples.

⏱️ One-Time Maintenance Period

To configure a Maintenance Period that runs only once:

  1. Create a new Maintenance Period.

  2. Disable Recurring.

  3. Configure its start time and duration.

  4. Select the actions to suppress.

  5. Save the configuration.

✨ Configuration Activation

New or updated Maintenance Period configurations are applied by GermainUX within approximately 60 seconds.

Any changes to new or existing maintenance periods are picked up by Germain within the next 60 seconds..