Docs Cloud Manage Upgrades and Maintenance Upgrades and Maintenance As a fully-managed service, the Redpanda Cloud control plane handles all maintenance operations, such as upgrades to your software and infrastructure. Redpanda runs maintenance operations on clusters in a rolling fashion, accompanied by a series of health checks, so there is no disruption to the availability of your service. As part of the Kafka protocol, recycling nodes triggers client connections to be restarted. All mainstream client libraries support automatic reconnections when a restart occurs. Maintenance windows Redpanda Cloud may run maintenance operations on any day at any time. You can override this default and schedule a specific maintenance window on your cluster’s Cluster settings page. If you select a Scheduled maintenance window, then Redpanda Cloud runs operations on the day and time specified. Maintenance windows typically take six hours. All operations commence during the maintenance window, but some operations may complete after the window closes. All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Redpanda Cloud maintenance cycles always start on Tuesdays. Clusters scheduled for maintenance on Tuesdays are updated first, and clusters scheduled on Mondays are updated last. Keep this in mind when sequencing updates for multiple clusters. See also: Redpanda Cloud API Deprecation Policy Back to top × Simple online edits For simple changes, such as fixing a typo, you can edit the content directly on GitHub. Edit on GitHub Or, open an issue to let us know about something that you want us to change. Open an issue Contribution guide For extensive content updates, or if you prefer to work locally, read our contribution guide . Was this helpful? thumb_up thumb_down group Ask in the community mail Share your feedback group_add Make a contribution Manage Monitor Redpanda Cloud