Silences

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A silence is a setting that lets you pause notifications during a defined timeframe on a specific agent, a tag or a metric. You can create, edit, and delete silences from the notifications configuration section or from the status page by clicking on the bell icon.

Managing silences in the Bleemeo notifications configuration

This is an example of a dashboard view and you can see the silence button to the right of each metric : Bleemeo status page with a silence bell icon next to each metric

Single Silence

To create single silence

To create a silence you click on the bell icon of the chosen metric or agent, and a page like this appears. You can click on the calendar to create a silence and you can fill the reason if you want.

Creating a single silence with calendar and reason fields

To edit or delete single silence

To edit or delete a silence you click on the bell icon of the chosen metric or agent, then you click on an event on the calendar.

If you want to edit you can update the reason, the start or end date of the silence. To save click on the Edit button.
If you want to delete the silence you can click on the Delete button.

Editing or deleting a single silence from a calendar event

Recurrent Silence

A recurring silence lets you quickly create multiple silences that occur at the same time and/or day. For example to silence every week-end or every Monday morning.

To create recurrent silence

To create a recurrent silence you click on the bell icon of the chosen metric or agent, and a page like this appears. You can click on the calendar and the recurrent tab to create a recurrent silence.

You should fill multiple fields:

start time: start time in the selected time zone of one silence occurrence
duration: duration of one silence occurrence
days: the days when the silence should occur
start from: start date for the first silence occurrence
until: end date for the last silence occurrence

Creating a recurrent silence with start time, duration, and days fields

To edit or delete recurrent silence

To edit or delete a recurrent silence you click on the bell icon of the chosen metric or agent, then you click on an event on the calendar.

If you want to edit you can update the reason, the start or end date of the silence. To save click on the Edit button.
If you want to delete the silence you can click on the Delete button.

Editing or deleting a recurrent silence from a calendar event

Flappy Silence

Configuring a flappy lets you temporarily pause notifications automatically when you receive too many of them. You can configure:

the number of events occurrence
the time frame
an agent, a tag, or a metric the events are related Notifications will resume automatically when the criteria (number of events during a time frame) are not met anymore.

You can create Flappy configurations on this page:

Flappy configurations list in the Bleemeo silences section

Creating a flappy configuration with event count and time frame settings