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title: "Excluding a machine / hypervisors from the Monitor"
slug: "excluding-a-machine-hypervisors-from-the-monitor"
updated: 2025-06-17T22:10:52Z
published: 2025-06-17T22:10:52Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/excluding-a-machine-hypervisors-from-the-monitor"
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# Excluding a machine / hypervisors from the Monitor

You can exclude specific objects like machines, hypervisors, CVAD sites, etc. from being monitored by the ControlUp Monitor.

          **Note**

          

By excluding objects from the monitor, alerting won't be applied to those machines and their data won't be displayed in the ControlUp Real-Time DX Console or VDI App.

**To exclude an object from the monitor:**

1. Select the object that you want to exclude, for example vCenter
2. Right-click the object and select **Properties** ![Right-click menu on a folder. The 'Properties' option is highlighted. ](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%2851%29.png)
3. Change the value in the **Exclude from ControlUp Monitor** field to **Yes** ![Folder properties window. The option 'Exclude from ControlUp Monitor' is set to 'Yes'.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%2852%29.png)
4. Click **OK** to apply the change

At this point, the monitor will disconnect from the object and you'll see it as **Disconnected** in the **Monitored Resources** tab in the monitor settings management window.

By default, the value is **Inherit** for all objects in the folder structure from the root folder to the lowest hierachy level. This means that if the root folder (in our case ControlUp demo) would be excluded from the monitor, all environment level objects will be excluded from the monitor, unless you have an object with **No** applied.