# Maintenance mode

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/maintenance-mode/15709>\
**Category:** Ideas and Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/maintenance-mode/15709 "2020-08-19T09:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![madpet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/madpet/32/1131_2.png) [@madpet](https://forum.mautic.org/u/madpet)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/maintenance-mode/15709/1 "2020-08-19T09:03:12Z")

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My idea is: A “Maintenance mode”, which would stop non-admin Mautic users from being able to sign in until maintenance mode is disabled again. Similarly, it would freeze cron jobs and perhaps even webhooks, and essentially ‘turn off’ Mautic.

I think these groups of people would benefit from this idea: Well #7745 for starters, but also people looking to take a dump of the database and want 100% consistency, but are being bombarded by activity 24/7. Finally, anyone looking to do some kind of maintenance in general.

Why I think they would benefit from this idea: Because they can get it done without being hit in the back of the head by a cronjob trying to use some nearly-implemented feature.

Are you willing to work on this idea?: Maybe, sometimes in the far future. I don’t really have the time atm.

What skills and resources do you need to explore this further? Time and patience, and a way to freeze cronjobs from Mautic - alternatively, a filter which can temporarily unpublish everything when in maintenance mode and re-publish it when maintenance mode is lifted.