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If you want to pause monitoring, several options are available. You can pause monitoring for a single sensor, an entire device, a group, or even a probe.

While a sensor is in the Paused status, it does not collect any monitoring data, does not change its status, and does not trigger any notifications. An object keeps the Paused status also after a restart of PRTG.

Pause by Intention (Manually or by Schedule)

Navigate to the desired object in the device tree and select Pause from the context menu.

You can select Pause Indefinitely, or select a time after which monitoring automatically resumes, such as 5 or 15 minutes, 1 or 3 hours, 1 day, or Until a certain date. You can also set up a one-time maintenance window to automatically pause sensors at a specified time.

If you select Pause from an object's hover popup, the object or objects are paused indefinitely until you resume them again.

When you select a pause option, a dialog appears and prompts you to enter a message. PRTG shows the message in the status message of the object as long as it is paused. Confirm with OK to pause the object or click Cancel to not pause it.

Pause Message Prompt

You can also pause monitoring for objects via schedules. If you pause a master object by schedule or manually, you do not trigger a status change by dependency. For more information, see the Knowledge Base: Why will dependent objects not go into paused status automatically when I pause the master object?

Pause by Hierarchy

If you pause monitoring for an object in the device tree, all child objects underneath are paused as well. For example, if you pause a group, all sensors on all devices in this group are also paused. After you pause an object, you can resume monitoring at any time by selecting Resume from the context menu. However, you cannot resume monitoring for single child objects that are paused by a parent object, only for the object you originally set to pause.

Pause by Dependency

There is a way to automatically pause objects. If you have a master sensor, for example, a master Ping sensor for a device, PRTG can pause all dependent sensors on the device automatically in case the master object shows the Down status.

For more information, see section Dependencies and the Knowledge Base: Why will dependent objects not go into paused status automatically when I pause the master object?

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