Enabling and Disabling Monitors and Alerts

Last modified on July 26, 2024

You can enable and disable monitors at any time. Disabled monitors do not run and appear in gray in the monitor list. You can also turn off alerts for a monitor, so that the monitor continues running, but does not send notifications.

Notes:

  • You must be an Admin, Co-Admin or Power User to change the monitoring settings.

  • To disable monitoring or alerting temporarily, you can schedule a monitor blackout instead.

Enable or disable one monitor

AlertSite UXM

  1. On the Dashboard, click on the monitor tile and select Edit Configurations.

    –or–

    Click Edit Monitor on the Monitor Summary, Monitor Availability, or Monitor Performance dashboard.

  2. Select the Enable Monitoring check box.

    Enable or disable the monitor

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  3. Click Save.

AlertSite 1.0

  1. On the Dashboard, click the wrench icon next to the monitor you want to enable or disable.

  2. Change Monitoring Is to Enabled or Disabled.

    Enable or disable the monitor

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  3. Click Submit at the upper right.

Enable or disable multiple monitors

AlertSite UXM

  1. On the Dashboard, click to open the bulk editor.

  2. On the left, select the check boxes next to the monitors you want to enable or disable.

  3. Select the check box next to the Monitoring setting to activate the edit mode, then toggle monitoring on on or off off as required.

    Enabling multiple monitors

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  4. Click Apply and confirm the changes.

AlertSite 1.0

  1. Select one of the following menu items, depending on the monitor type:

    • Configure > Sites – web URL, API endpoint, email, FTP, DNS or ping monitors
    • Configure > Transactions – DéjàClick monitors
    • Configure > APIs – SoapUI monitors
    • Configure > Selenium Scripts – Selenium monitors
    • Configure > Mobile Monitoring – BitBar monitors
  2. Select the check boxes next to the monitors you want to enable or disable, and click Enable monitoring or Disable monitoring.

    Enabling multiple monitors

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Enable or disable alerts

When alerting is disabled, the monitor still runs the tests and shows the results in AlertSite, but does not send alerts on errors.

You can enable and disable alerts in the monitor settings:

AlertSite UXM

  1. On the Dashboard, click on the monitor tile and select Edit Configurations.

    –or–

    Click Edit Monitor on the Monitor Summary, Monitor Availability, or Monitor Performance dashboard.

  2. Switch to the Alerts tab and enable the necessary alerts.

    Enable or disable alerts from the monitor

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  3. Click Save.

AlertSite 1.0

  1. On the Dashboard, click the wrench icon next to the monitor you want to enable or disable.

  2. Set Notify on Error to Yes to enable alerts, or No to disable alerts.

    Enable or disable monitor alerts

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  3. Click Submit.

See Also

Configuring Monitors
Scheduling Monitor Blackouts
Alerts
Bulk Editing

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