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It is on this Services panel that you can create and manage any of the out-of-the-box service monitors, as well as search for additional plugin monitors found at uptime software's Grid. You can also configure other up.time objects that allow you to manage monitoring-related activities:
- bundle a stack of service monitors into a Service Group that can be collectively assigned to Elements
- configure different types of Alert Profiles and Action Profiles that run when service monitors raise alerts
- indicate hierarchies using Topological Dependencies, to prevent a service monitor on a dependent Element from sending alerts when a parent Element's service monitor is already doing so
- avoid false positives by defining Maintenance Profiles to indicate when service monitors shouldn't watch Elements for status changes, and Monitoring Periods for when they should
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