Schedule planned downtime without surprising clients or subscribers
DownCTL lets you schedule a maintenance window for any site, then handles the advance notices, start and completion updates, and subscriber emails automatically.
No credit card required during the trial period.
What maintenance windows include
Maintenance windows schedule planned downtime with automatic advance notices, start and completion updates, and subscriber communication.
Scheduled start and end times
Day-before and 15-minutes-before advance notices
Automatic started and completed notifications
Custom subject and body per notification stage
Tenant-wide notification templates with per-window overrides
Why it matters
Planned work should not look like an outage. Scheduled communication keeps clients and subscribers informed without triggering a false alarm.
Planned downtime should not trigger the same alarm as an outage
Clients and subscribers expect a heads-up before scheduled work
Every maintenance stage deserves its own message, not one generic notice
How it works in DownCTL
Maintenance windows close the loop between planned work and the same status-page and subscriber communication DownCTL already uses for incidents.
- 1 Schedule a maintenance window for a site
- 2 Choose which notification stages to send
- 3 DownCTL sends advance notices automatically as the window approaches
- 4 Started and completed updates go out without manual follow-up
Keep exploring the website operations stack
DownCTL checks client websites continuously, records response history, and alerts your team when downtime or slow responses need attention.
Turn client-site health into a public source of truth with branded status pages, incident timelines, uptime summaries, and subscriber updates.
Create reusable channels and route each client-site alert rule to the people and tools that should know first.
Common questions
What happens to alerts during a maintenance window?
DownCTL suppresses incident detection for a site while its maintenance window is active, so planned work does not open a false incident.
Can I customize the notification messages?
Yes. Each stage — advance notice, started, and completed — can use a tenant-wide template or a custom message for that specific window.
Do subscribers get notified automatically?
Yes. Subscribers to a site's status page can receive the same advance-notice, started, and completed updates your team configures.
Can I schedule maintenance in advance?
Yes. Maintenance windows are scheduled with a start and end time, and advance notices go out automatically as the window approaches.
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