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title: "Quiet Hours & Alert Frequency — Lemwatch Help"
description: "Suppress non-critical alerts during off-hours. Held alerts still appear in the inbox with a scheduled delivery time."
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/help/quiet-hours"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
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# Quiet Hours & Alert Frequency

> Suppress non-critical alerts during off-hours. Held alerts still appear in the inbox with a scheduled delivery time.

## Quiet Hours & Alert Frequency

### Quiet Hours

 Suppress non-critical alerts during specified hours (e.g., 10 PM – 7 AM).

 **How to set up:**

- Go to Settings → Notifications → Alert Preferences

- Set Quiet Hours Start and End times

- Choose your timezone

 **Important:** Critical alerts (site down, security vulnerability) are **never** suppressed — they always come through.

### Where suppressed alerts go

 When an alert is held back by quiet hours it does **not** disappear. We write a suppressed row into the Alerts Inbox so you can see exactly what was held, why, and when it will be delivered. The reason label reads **"Quiet hours active"** and the row shows a **scheduled-for** time. See [Suppressed alerts in the inbox](https://lemwatch.com/help/alerts-inbox-suppressed) for the full list of reasons.

### Alert Frequency

 Control how often you receive alerts:

- Immediate — Every alert sent as it happens

- Hourly digest — Batched summary every hour

- Daily digest — One email per day with all events

 Choose based on your monitoring volume. If you monitor 50+ sites, daily digest prevents inbox overload for non-urgent items. Digest-queued alerts also appear in the inbox with a **"Queued for digest"** label — see [Alert digest mode](https://lemwatch.com/help/alert-digest-mode).

### Consecutive Failure Threshold

 Set how many failed checks are required before triggering an alert. Default is 1 (immediate alert). Set to 2 or 3 to reduce false positives from temporary network issues.


## Related

- [Help centre](https://lemwatch.com/help)
- [Setting Up Alerts](https://lemwatch.com/help/alert-setup)
- [Alert Digest Mode](https://lemwatch.com/help/alert-digest-mode)
- [Suppressed alerts in the inbox](https://lemwatch.com/help/alerts-inbox-suppressed)
- [Escalation Policies](https://lemwatch.com/help/escalation-policies)
- [Creating PDF Reports](https://lemwatch.com/help/creating-pdf-reports)
- [Lemwatch pricing](https://lemwatch.com/pricing)
- [How to Redeem a Lifetime Deal Code](https://lemwatch.com/help/redeeming-ltd-code)