We use Azure for IaaS resources. To minimize spend, we shut down all of our non-prod VMs during “off-hours” to minimize compute cost. During these hours, Auditor will throw errors stating that the resources are not available. Is there a way to tell a File Server monitoring plan to only “run” durin…

Hello Marc, There is not a way to tell Auditor to only collect at certain times. We could omit the errors but they would be omitted completely. I would not recommend that because then if the server really did go down, you would not get any warnings in Auditor. Michael Purdin Manager, Technical …

OK. Thank you. I am going to put a feature request in the Ideas section. I’m sure the folks who use this product in cloud IaaS VMs are running into this as well.

Pause Monitoring Plan on a Schedule

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mscirri (Marc Scirri) December 18, 2025, 6:13pm 4

FYI: Ability to Pause Monitoring Plans on a Schedule

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Pause Monitoring Plan on a Schedule

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