--- title: "Schedules" slug: "schedules" updated: 2025-06-11T21:07:27Z published: 2025-06-11T21:07:27Z canonical: "docs.catchpoint.com/schedules" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.catchpoint.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Schedules Schedules help you manage the resources used by your tests by defining the time-periods during which they will run. Without an assigned schedule, a test will run 24/7, which could result in excessive use of resources. Catchpoint supports two different types of schedules: - **Run Schedules** are times that your application or website is available and you want to perform testing (intervals when tests should run). For example, you could set up a run schedule so that testing is performed during times of heaviest and lightest system usage to see how differences in load affect performance. - **Maintenance Schedules** are times that your application or website is not available for testing (intervals when tests should not run). This prevents Catchpoint from wasting resources and generating false errors and alerts during planned down-time. Once you create schedules, they can be applied at the Product, Folder or Test level. ### Accessing Schedules To get to the Schedules module, click the Settings icon in the main menu and then select **Schedules**. The Schedules page provides a sortable and searchable table of all existing schedules in your system, and displays basic information about existing schedules, including the name, status, and type of each schedule. ### Creating a Schedule 1. In the Schedules module, click **Create** 2. Input a Name for this schedule (e.g. "daily testing") 3. Select a status for this schedule. Default is **Active**. Deactivating a schedule does not remove its association with products/folders/tests. It just means it will not have any effect, so any active tests will run constantly. 4. Select a Type - **Run** - this schedule defines times that assigned tests will run. - **Maintenance** - this schedule defines times that assigned tests will *not* run. 5. Add one or more occurrences. These are the actual time periods of the schedule. For Run schedules, the tests will only run during the occurrences you define. For Maintentance schedules, the tests will always run ***except*** during the occurrences you define. - you can add one-time occurrences, and/or recurring occurrences. **Example:** In the following example, tests assigned this schedule will run every weekday from 0:00 to 1:00, and from 12:00 to 13:00, to compare minumum and peak daily traffic. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/cb4af8f9-6751-4fd2-b39c-07aae832badb/Images/Documentation/image%28443%29.png){height="" width=""} ### Assigning Schedules Once you have created Schedules, you can assign them at the Product, Folder, or Test level under Targeting and Scheduling.