Silences

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A silence is a setting that allows to 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.

silence interface

This an example of a dashboard view and you can see the silence button to the right of each metric : silence logo

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.

create silence

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.

create silence

Recurrent Silence

A recurring silence allow to 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 we the silence should occur
start from: start date for the first silence occurrence
until: end date for the last silence occurrence

create silence

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.

create silence

Flappy Silence

Configuring a flappy allows to temporary pause notifications automatically when you receive too many notifications. 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 interface

Flappy creation