Planned work
Tell visitors ahead of time when part of your website will be offline or slower.
Try it
Choose Planned work in the composer and tap the sentence: what is affected, what visitors will notice, when, for how long and why.
studio.uptimecard.com/status/brightloom.example/incidents/new
Our website will be offline on Fri 16 Jan at 10:00 UTC for about an hour while we do routine maintenance.
Written from the sentence above. Nothing to type.
Shown on your page · planned work isn't emailed
Recorded as planned work, not as an outage
status.brightloom.example
What visitors will see
Scheduled
Planned maintenance
Website
Our website will be offline on Friday 16 January from 10:00 UTC for about an hour while we do routine maintenance.
Fri 16 Jan, 10:00–11:00 UTC
The choices
| What visitors will notice | |
|---|---|
| will be offline | Visitors can't use it |
| will be read-only | They can look, not change |
| may be slower | Works, but slowly |
| shouldn't be affected | Just letting people know |
- When: starting now, in an hour, tonight or tomorrow at a set hour on your clock, or any date and time. The message names the time in UTC.
- How long: from about 30 minutes to about a day. It is an estimate.
- Starting now shows as Under maintenance; later shows as Scheduled.
Good to know
- Planned work never counts as downtime.
- Planned work is never emailed to subscribers; it shows on your page.
- Two planned works cannot overlap on the same part.
Updating planned work
Pick Update: The work has started, It's still in progress, It's taking longer, It's finished, It was cancelled. “It's taking longer” moves the announced end. Unexpected problems are incidents: Post an incident.