Pause a monitor when you temporarily do not want Uptime Basics to check it. The monitor remains in your dashboard with its configuration and retained history, so you can activate it again without rebuilding it.
Pausing is different from archiving or deleting:
| Action | Monitor location | New checks | Can be restored? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pause | Main dashboard | Stop | Yes, by activating it |
| Archive | Archived Monitors | Stop | Yes, if the plan has capacity |
| Delete | Removed | Stop | No |
Pause a monitor
- Open Monitors from the customer dashboard.
- Select the monitor card you want to pause.
- Select Pause monitor near the top of Monitor Details.
- Review the confirmation and select Pause.
- Wait for the page to show Monitor paused and the status to change to Paused.
The button is disabled while the request is being saved. This prevents repeated taps from sending conflicting pause and activation requests.
What pausing stops
After the change is saved, Uptime Basics stops scheduling:
- HTTP or HTTPS availability checks.
- Optional SSL certificate checks.
- Optional domain-expiry checks.
- New slow-response, outage, recovery, SSL, and domain-expiry alerts that would depend on future checks.
A check or notification already being processed when you pause may finish. Pausing is not a recall mechanism for a message that has already been queued.
If an incident is open when the monitor is paused, it cannot be confirmed as recovered until monitoring resumes and healthy results are received.
What pausing keeps
Pausing keeps the monitor's URL, interval, timeout, request settings, alert choices, expiry settings, slow-response settings, and status-page configuration.
Existing data remains available but continues to age under the normal retention periods:
- Raw check logs: 30 days.
- Alert history: 14 days.
- Aggregated rollups: up to 400 days.
- Incident history: for the life of the monitor.
A paused monitor still counts toward the plan's monitor limit. A paused one-minute monitor also keeps its one-minute slot. Archive, delete, or change the interval if you need to release that capacity.
Public status pages while paused
An enabled public status page remains accessible. It shows the monitor as Paused instead of presenting the previous Up result as current. The last check and historical sections may remain visible, but they do not represent checks performed after the pause.
Disable the public status page separately if you do not want visitors to access it during maintenance.
Reactivate a monitor
- Open the paused monitor from the dashboard.
- Select Activate monitor.
- Review the confirmation and select Activate.
- Wait for the page to show Monitor activated.
The saved interval and monitoring settings become active again. The previous Up or Down result should not be treated as new evidence; wait for a fresh check to confirm the target's current condition.
If Uptime Basics paused the monitor automatically after repeated timeout-heavy failures, review the target, timeout, firewall behavior, and Failure Diagnosis before activating it. Automatic protection details appear on the dashboard and Monitor Details page.
When to pause instead of delete
Pause when you are performing maintenance, temporarily retiring an endpoint, investigating repeated alerts, or expecting to monitor the same target again.
Delete when the monitor should leave active service. It remains recoverable for 30 days in Recently deleted; permanent cleanup begins after that period or when Delete permanently is selected.