How do I disable a probe in Cloudmon?

How do I disable a probe in Cloudmon?

You may disable a probe when it is temporarily not required, under maintenance, or if it is generating unwanted alerts.
Disabling helps prevent false positives, unnecessary alarms, and incorrect availability calculations while troubleshooting or performing infrastructure changes.

Steps to disable a probe:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Probes
  2. Select the required probe
  3. Click Disable Probe
  4. Confirm the action

The probe status will change to Disabled.


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