scheduled maintenance

[kash1983]

Hello,

if you plan an scheduled maintenance with an START and END date it will never appear on the dashboard.
Only if you create them with an START date only it will appear.
I think this is a bit confusing, because if i plan an schedule an weekly update, i want to declare an timeslot and dont want to enter again the cachet-scheduled-maintenance to enter an date at the end of my maintenance.

Can this function be controlled or changed?

Thanks

[msciacca]

Hey, I'm with you on this one, I think this could be better handled by adding another timestamp, as such:

1st Timestamp (Start time)
2nd Timestamp (Scheduled completion)
3rd Timestamp (Actual completion)

The actual completion may stay null until set as complete, and as long as start and scheduled (or start only if there's no est. end) are set it can show on the status page

If anyone has better ideas or suggestions please chime in, I could work on implementing this next week!

[kash1983]

i think that would be an perfect option ;-)

[jbrooksuk]

Hmm, we recently changed scheduled maintenances to work the way you're seeing now, but I agree it may be a little confusing. I'm happy for someone to look into improving this further.

[czepan]

I took a look at version 3 today and was a bit surprised that scheduled maintenance with a predefined time window (e.g., 08:00 AM – 10:00 AM) doesn’t show up in the status overview at all.

For us, this kind of maintenance is the norm rather than the exception. When there's no predefined end time, it's usually more of an incident or emergency situation.

We would really appreciate it if there were an option (like the one described above) to have clearly defined maintenance windows still appear on the overview page :)

[jbrooksuk]

Okay, we should definitely revisit this. Happy for someone to take a look if they'd like!