Pause and resume all maintenance

You can pause all maintenance at once, for example during a busy period or an incident. When you are ready, you resume it with one click.

Prerequisites

• Your role includes maintenance:manage.

Choose a pause mode

Mode	New runs	Runs that are working now
graceful	Blocked	Finish normally.
emergency	Blocked	Stopped right away, the same as Stop run. This cannot be undone.

Use graceful in most cases. Use emergency only when maintenance must stop at once, for example when it slows down the Lakehouse during an incident.

Pause maintenance

1. Select Janitor → Settings in the sidebar.
2. Select Pause maintenance in the top right corner.
3. Type graceful or emergency.
4. Select Confirm.

Confirm stays disabled until you type one of the two modes. After the pause, the button changes to Resume maintenance.

What works during a pause

The table below shows which actions still work during a pause.

Action	During a pause
Scheduled runs	Do not start.
Run	Rejected with Maintenance is globally paused.
Dry run, Reset state, Stop run	Work as usual.
Viewing jobs and runs, editing jobs and settings	Work as usual.

Resume maintenance

1. Select Janitor → Settings in the sidebar.
2. Select Resume maintenance.

There is no confirmation. The button changes back to Pause maintenance.

Jobs run again at their next scheduled time. Janitor does not rerun the runs it missed during the pause, or the runs that an emergency pause stopped. To catch up, open the job and select Run. See Run a job now.

Next steps

• Janitor permissions and input rules.