# Suppress alarms from engaging Incident Detection and Response
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Specify which of your onboarded workload alarms engage with AWS Incident Detection and Response monitoring by suppressing them temporarily or on a schedule. For example, you might temporarily suppress workload alarms during planned maintenance to prevent the alarms from engaging Incident Detection and Response. Or, you might suppress alarms on a schedule if you have daily reboot activity. You can suppress alarms at the alarm source, such as Amazon CloudWatch, or you can submit a workload change request.

**Topics**
+ [Suppress alarms at the alarm source](suppress-alarms-at-source.md)
+ [Submit a workload change request to suppress alarms](suppress-alarms-at-source-wcr.md)
+ [Tutorial: Use a metric math function to suppress an alarm](suppress-alarms-tutorial-suppress.md)
+ [Tutorial: Remove a metric math function to un-suppress an alarm](suppress-alarms-tutorial-unsuppress.md)