Pause actions of all alerts
It does pause for the whole platform as I have used it previously during patching, but with maintenance schedules it was no longer needed.
Hi @jameslindsay ,
What it Does:That option only affects your current web console session — it temporarily pauses alert actions visible on that page only (e.g., prevents triggering or showing updates while you review alerts).It does not globally pause alert evaluations or email actions across SolarWinds.
In other words: It’s a UI-level pause, not a system-wide alert pause. It only lasts until you refresh or leave the page. It’s user-specific — does not affect what others see.
How to Toggle It:1. Go to Alerts & Activity → Alerts (or wherever you see Active Alerts).2. Click More → Page Behavior Settings (as shown in your image).3. Check or uncheck “Pause actions of all alerts.”-> Checked → Pauses all alert actions on that page view.-> Unchecked → Resumes normal behavior.
Regards,Pratik Jajal
Thank you. Everything else I was finding on the subject said it was a global toggle; active until reset too false. I have a change which will largely isolate SW and potentially generate hundreds of alerts. I was hoping this was a work around to shutting down SolarWinds.
This was my understanding too and that is what the documentation states (SolarWinds documentation), from what I see - it isn't clearly stated on the documentation that this is applied only for the particular web console session. And in the past, I have tried this as well, you pause alert actions, logout and login again and it's still there in paused state unless you manually uncheck it. I could be wrong but looks like it works as a global alert actions pause. But then once you uncheck this, just restart your alerting engine service and all actions that are currently live are fired is what the documentation claims.
I am not 100% convinced this is a user pause because from what I have seen - this has indeed paused actions for the whole platform. I could be wrong and not be fully verifying but I swear alerts dont trigger when I have that active. The other thing you can do is you can setup a maintenance window for all of the monitored nodes so they dont trigger. This should trickle down to any interfaces, volumes, applications etc that could inherit the maintenance window action. You dont have to shut the whole system down. Not sure if this is before or after your specified change since its been about a week but hopefully this gives someone else some further ways to deal with alerts.
