# Can I snooze a single check on a monitor?

Yes. Snoozing in Oh Dear is **per check**, not per monitor. That means you can silence "certificate expires soon" alerts on one monitor without affecting its uptime alerts, or vice versa.

## How to snooze a specific check

1. Open the monitor.
2. Click the check type you want to snooze (Uptime, Certificate Health, Broken Links, etc.).
3. Click **Snooze**.
4. Pick how long: 15 minutes, an hour, four hours, a day, until the next workday, or a week.

While a check is snoozed, its runs still happen and its results are still recorded (so your history isn't interrupted), but **no notifications fire** until the snooze expires or you unsnooze manually.

## Snooze vs. maintenance window vs. disable

Easy to confuse, so here's the short version:

- **Snooze**: silence alerts on one or more checks for a set duration. Runs still happen, history is intact.
- **Maintenance window**: silence alerts for **all checks on a monitor** during a specific time period, and exclude any failures from your uptime percentage.
- **Disable**: stop the check from running entirely. No runs, no results, no alerts. Use this when you no longer want the check at all.

Rule of thumb:

- Just avoiding a short burst of noise? **Snooze.**
- Known downtime during a deploy? **Maintenance window.**
- Permanently not interested in this check? **Disable.**

## Snoozing directly from a notification

Every alert email and Slack message includes a direct **Snooze** link. Click it to silence future alerts for that specific check, picking 15 minutes, an hour, a day, or a week, without having to log into Oh Dear.

Full docs: [How to snooze notifications](/docs/notifications/how-to-snooze-notifications).