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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 sensor (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.) from your environment. Keep in mind that if you delete a sensor, you will delete all assets (An IP-addressable host, including but not limited to network devices, virtual servers, and physical servers.) and jobs related to that sensor.

**To delete a sensor**

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

2. Click the ![](https://mintcdn.com/levelblue-final/3ewB6g_LmXIUaKmn/images/usm-anywhere/trash-alt.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=3ewB6g_LmXIUaKmn\&q=85\&s=bb52e19abd824deb8ffa3f002bc691d4) icon of the sensor you want to delete.

   ![](https://mintcdn.com/levelblue-final/R8NP64t3xzul4i5r/images/usm-anywhere/deletesensor.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=R8NP64t3xzul4i5r\&q=85\&s=2417fc955b5e4865b2abd6db2876e24c)

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.