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# Deleting a Sensor

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| **Role Availability** | Read-Only | **Investigator** | Analyst | **Manager** |

USM Anywhere enables you to delete completely a <Tooltip tip="Sensors are deployed into an on-premises, cloud, or multi-cloud environment to collect logs and other security-related data. This data is normalized and then securely forwarded to USM Anywhere for analysis and correlation.">sensor</Tooltip> from your environment. Keep in mind that if you delete a sensor, you will delete all <Tooltip tip="An IP-addressable host, including but not limited to network devices, virtual servers, and physical servers.">assets</Tooltip> and jobs related to that sensor.

**To delete a sensor**

1. Go to **Data Sources > Sensors** to open the page.

2. Click the <img src="https://mintcdn.com/levelblue-5324744e/9HhQ6wK11ydctaHc/images/usm-anywhere/trash-alt.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=9HhQ6wK11ydctaHc&q=85&s=2a750f9ee3d6466fc6799984309cddf0" className="inline" width="24" height="24" data-path="images/usm-anywhere/trash-alt.svg" /> icon of the sensor you want to delete.

   <Frame>
     <img src="https://mintcdn.com/levelblue-5324744e/58jWJ18C3bcpNz-l/images/usm-anywhere/deletesensor.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=58jWJ18C3bcpNz-l&q=85&s=be1a845fef06e2ddf6da975e01cfd5ec" alt="" width="394" height="313" data-path="images/usm-anywhere/deletesensor.webp" />
   </Frame>

3. Click **Delete this sensor permanently.**

   The deleted sensor is not displayed in the list of sensors.

   <Warning>
     **Important:** Keep in mind that if you terminate an AWS instance, an Azure virtual machine, GCP virtual machine, or a VMware virtual machine, any assets that have vulnerabilities associated with them will not be automatically deleted when the discovery scan finds them terminated in AWS, Azure, or VMware vCenter/vSphere.
   </Warning>