Pause and Resume Monitoring

When to Pause

• Planned maintenance
• Development/testing
• Agent temporarily offline
• Cost management

From Dashboard

Pause: Open agent → Pause Monitoring → Confirm

Resume: Open paused agent → Resume Monitoring

From API

# Pause
curl -X PATCH "https://api.agentstatus.dev/api/v1/agents/{agent_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"status": "paused"}'

# Resume
curl -X PATCH "https://api.agentstatus.dev/api/v1/agents/{agent_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"status": "active"}'

What Happens When Paused

Aspect	Behavior
Scheduled checks	Stop
Manual runs	Still allowed
Alerts	Don't trigger
History	Preserved
Billing	Subscription still active
Status badge	Shows "Unknown"

Paused periods are excluded from uptime calculations.

Deleting vs Pausing

Action	Use When
Pause	Temporary stop, keeping history
Delete	Permanently remove agent