Skip or delay an auto-stop scheduled shutdown

A platform engineer or project admin can schedule a time for dev boxes in a pool to stop automatically, to ensure efficient resource use and provide cost management.

You can delay the shutdown or skip it altogether. This flexibility allows you to manage your work and resources more effectively, ensuring that your projects remain uninterrupted when necessary.

Skip scheduled shutdown from the dev box

If your dev box is in a pool with a stop schedule, you receive a notification about 30 minutes before the scheduled shutdown giving you time to save your work or make necessary adjustments.

Delay the shutdown

1. In the pop-up notification, select a time to delay the shutdown for.

   

2. Select Delay

   

Skip the shutdown

To skip the shutdown, select Skip in the notification. The dev box doesn't shut down until the next scheduled shutdown time.

Skip scheduled shutdown from the developer portal

In the developer portal, you can see the scheduled shutdown time on the dev box tile, and delay or skip the shutdown from the more options menu.

Shutdown time is shown on dev box tile:

Delay the shutdown

1. Locate your dev box.

2. On the more options menu, select Delay scheduled shutdown.

   

3. You can delay the shutdown by up to 8 hours from the scheduled time. From Delay shutdown until, select the time you want to delay the shutdown until, and then select Delay.

   

Skip the shutdown

1. Locate your dev box.

2. On the more options menu, select Delay scheduled shutdown.

3. On the Delay shutdown until list, select the last available option, which specifies the time 8 hours after the scheduled shutdown time, and then select Delay. In this example, the last option is 6:30 pm tomorrow (skip).

   

Next steps

• Manage a dev box using the developer portal
• Auto-stop your Dev Boxes on schedule