Abstract: Methods and system are disclosed that bypass a maintenance mode of an application, for some users. In one aspect, multiple requests may be received to establishing a connection with multiple applications at a load balancer component. Upon receiving the received requests, a request processing and inspection unit and an intelligent control unit may be instantiated. The request processing and inspection unit may preprocess or process the received requests. The preprocessed or processed requests may be forward to the intelligent control unit. Based on a determination of header information and a content of the received requests, the intelligent control unit may determine whether to execute a routine to bypass a maintenance mode of an application and direct the requests to establish connection with the application or to execute a routine related to the maintenance mode of the application.