Campaign Windows

The problem it solves

A flash sale looks exactly like an attack to a volume detector: traffic triples in minutes. Without campaign windows you have two bad options: get paged during every promo, or loosen thresholds and go blind for weeks. A campaign window is the third option: tell Edge the surge is coming, and the volume detectors stay quiet for that window only.

Declaring a window

1. Open Campaigns in the sidebar and click New window.
2. Name it, pick the kind (campaign, drop, sale, launch), and set the start and end times.
3. Scope it to one source or the whole workspace.
4. Choose which detectors to suppress during the window.

Security detectors are never suppressed

Only volume-driven detectors can be suppressed (spikes, cache bypass, 499 rate, and similar). Detectors that catch attacks (credential abuse, method shift, probes and scanners, impersonation) cannot be added to a window, deliberately. Attackers hide behind sales: card-testing operations time their runs for Black Friday precisely because everyone expects traffic to be weird. During your busiest window, the security signal keeps watching.

The audit trail

Each window's detail view has a "Suppressed during this window" section listing every alert that would have fired but was held back. After the window ends, review it: if everything suppressed was genuinely your own promo traffic, the window did its job. If something in the list looks like it wasn't yours, it deserves a look even though it never paged you.

Week tagging and reporting

Declaring a window automatically tags the overlapping weeks in Your Week in Traffic, so the spike explains itself in the long-run trend. Manual week tags always win over automatic ones.

Because the window records exact start and end times, it also gives you an honest after-action view: how much of the campaign's traffic was automated, and what the real (human) uplift was.

Tips

• Declare the window before the email send, not after the first page.
• Keep windows tight. A 6-hour drop needs a 6-hour window, not a weekend.
• Recurring promos: create a fresh window each time so the audit trail stays per-event.