Scanning

Scheduled Scans

Set up recurring scans on a daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedule to maintain continuous security coverage.

Why Schedule Scans?

Scheduled scans provide continuous security coverage without manual intervention. By testing your applications on a regular cadence, you catch new vulnerabilities introduced by deployments, configuration changes, or newly disclosed CVEs before attackers do.

Setting Up a Schedule

  1. Navigate to the target you want to schedule.
  2. Click the Schedule tab.
  3. Choose a frequency:

- Daily — runs once every 24 hours.

- Weekly — runs once per week on a day you choose.

- Biweekly — runs once every two weeks.

- Monthly — runs once per month on a date you choose.

  1. Select the model preset for scheduled scans.
  2. Set the preferred time (in UTC).
  3. Click Save Schedule.

Tier Requirements

Scheduled scans are available on the Business tier and above. Starter and Professional users can run on-demand scans but cannot configure recurring schedules. Upgrade to Business to unlock this feature.

How It Works

APVISO's scheduler checks for due scans every minute. When your schedule fires:

  1. A scan is automatically created with your configured preset.
  2. The system performs a quota check — if you have insufficient credits, the scheduled scan is skipped and you receive a notification.
  3. If credits are available, the scan is queued and runs like any manual scan.

All scheduled scans appear in your normal scan history with a scheduled badge.

Managing Schedules

You can pause, modify, or delete a schedule at any time from the target's Schedule tab. Pausing a schedule preserves its configuration without running scans.

Notifications

When a scheduled scan completes, you receive a notification (email, Slack, or webhook depending on your preferences) with a summary of findings. If new critical or high-severity vulnerabilities are discovered, the notification is flagged as urgent.

Best Practices

  • Run weekly scans on production applications and daily scans on staging environments that receive frequent deployments.
  • Use a medium preset for scheduled scans to balance depth and credit consumption.
  • Monitor your credit balance — if credits run out, scheduled scans are silently skipped.
  • Combine scheduled scans with CI/CD-triggered scans via the API for maximum coverage.
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