Create a silence

Welcome to the learning path that shows you how to create a silence. A silence suppresses notifications for alerts that match a set of labels during a time window you choose — useful during planned maintenance when you expect alerts to fire but don’t want to page anyone.

In this path, you’ll set a time window, add label matchers, verify which instances are affected, and submit the silence.

Here’s what to expect

When you complete this path, you’ll be able to:

• Open the silence creation form
• Set a start time and duration for the silence
• Add label matchers that select which alerts to silence
• Verify the affected instances and submit the silence

Before you begin

Before you create a silence, ensure you have:

• A Grafana Cloud account. To create one, refer to Grafana Cloud.
• Editor or Admin permissions to manage silences.
• Alert rules with labels you can match on.

Troubleshooting

If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.

More to explore

Silences are one way to control notifications. You can also use mute timings for recurring maintenance windows and notification policies for routing.