DigitalOcean Monitoring alerts lack per-alert snooze despite documented capability

Persistent notification noise from threshold alerts

DigitalOcean Monitoring supports threshold-based alerts on Droplet and managed database metrics with delivery to email, Slack, and webhook endpoints. The platform documentation references an "Alert Snooze" capability, yet the control panel and API do not expose per-alert snooze or suppression periods. Without a native way to silence alerts during known maintenance windows or transient spikes, operators must manually disable and re-enable each alert rule, which is error-prone and does not scale across multiple resources.

Constraints and uncertainty

The alert API (GET/POST /v2/alerts) does not include parameters for suppression windows, dynamic threshold escalation, or temporary silencing. Community discussions indicate users resort to external tooling or custom webhook filters to achieve basic noise reduction. It is unclear whether the documented snooze feature is deprecated, region-limited, or simply unimplemented in the current API surface.

What is the authoritative status of the Alert Snooze feature in the current DigitalOcean Monitoring API? Are there any supported programmatic workarounds to suppress notifications for a defined period without disabling the alert rule? Does the platform roadmap include native suppression windows or escalation policies for threshold alerts?