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title: "Manage Your Scouts"
slug: "manage-your-scouts"
updated: 2026-05-19T13:22:34Z
published: 2026-05-19T13:22:34Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/manage-your-scouts"
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# Manage Your Scouts

This article covers how you can manage your Scouts.

## Disable and Enable Scouts

If you disable a Scout, then it does not run any tests or collect any data. The Scout's configuration and past test result data are saved. You can enable the Scout again at any time. The credits used by the Scout are returned to your account. Enabling the Scout again uses credits.

Note that a Scout's alert policy is automatically activated when you enable a Scout.

**Disable or enable a single Scout**

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select a Scout to open the Scout details page. You can tell if a Scout is disabled if it appears dimmed or has a **Disabled** tag (only in the widget view).
2. On the Scout details page, select **Disable Scout** (or **Enable Scout** if it’s disabled).

![Disable or enable a single scout](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Disable scout(1).png)

**Disable or enable multiple Scouts**

To disable or enable multiple Scouts:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select the list view to view your Scouts in a list.

![Scout list view](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Scout List view(1).png)
2. Select the Scouts you want to disable or enable with the checkboxes next to their name. You can tell if a Scout is disabled if it appears dimmed. ![Select multiple scouts to disable](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/select scouts to disable.png)
3. Select **Disable Scouts** or **Enable Scouts**.

**Disable or enable a group of Scouts**

To disable or enable a group of Scouts:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select the list view to view your Scouts in a list.

![Scout list view](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Scout List view(3).png) Filter the list of Scouts so that only the Scouts you want to disable or enable are displayed. You can use the Scout category selector at the top of the page, and the **Filter scouts** box. You can apply multiple filters. For more information about filtering Scouts, see [Filter your Scouts](https://support.controlup.com/tim-reorg/docs/navigating-the-scoutbees-web-app#filter-your-scouts). You can group Scouts with any combination of the following properties:
  - Scout category (EUC, Infrastructure, or Applications)
  - Scout type
  - Address that the Scout tests
  - Hive that initiates the Scout
  - Resource that the Scout tests through an EUC gateway
  - Tags applied to Scouts
2. Select the checkbox at the top of the list to select all of the Scouts displayed on the page. Note that you can change the number of Scouts displayed per page at the bottom of the list.

![Disable or enable a scout group](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Scout groups.png)
3. Select **Disable Scouts** or **Enable Scouts**.

**Disable Scouts on a schedule**

You can schedule a time and duration to disable Scouts using maintenance windows. Use this feature if you have scheduled maintenance on a tested resource and do not want your Scouts to test the resource during the maintenance.

For details on how to set up a maintenance window, see [Maintenance Window](/tim-reorg/docs/maintenance-window).

## Edit Scouts

**Edit a Scout**

To edit the configuration of a single Scout:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select a Scout to open the Scout details window.
2. On the Scout details page, select **Edit Scout** to open the Scout configuration window.
3. After you edit the Scout, click **Save**.

## Delete Scouts

Deleting a Scout permanently removes it, including all of its past test result data. The credits used by the Scout are returned to your account.

**Delete a single Scout**

To delete a single Scout:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select a Scout to open the Scout details window.
2. On the Scout details page, select **Delete Scout**.

![Delete a single scout](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Delete scout(1).png)

**Delete multiple Scouts**

To delete multiple Scouts:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select the list view to view your Scouts in a list. ![Scout list view](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Scout List view(4).png)
2. Select the Scouts you want to delete with the checkboxes next to their name. ![Delete Multiple Scouts](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Delete multiple scouts(1).png)
3. Click **Delete Scouts**.

**Delete a group of Scouts**

To delete a group of Scouts:

1. On the Synthetic Monitoring **Home** page, select the list view to view your Scouts in a list. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Scout List view(6).png)
2. Filter the list of Scouts so that only the Scouts you want to delete are displayed. You can use the Scout category selector at the top of the page, and the **Filter scouts** box. You can apply multiple filters. For more information about filtering Scouts, see [Filter your Scouts](https://support.controlup.com/tim-reorg/docs/navigating-the-scoutbees-web-app#filter-your-scouts). You can group Scouts with any combination of the following properties:
  - Scout category (EUC, Infrastructure, or Applications)
  - Scout type
  - Address that the Scout tests
  - Hive that initiates the Scout
  - Resource that the Scout tests through an EUC gateway
  - Tags applied to Scouts
3. Select the checkbox at the top of the list to select all of the Scouts displayed in the list. Note that you can change the number of Scouts displayed per page at the bottom of the list. ![Delete a group of scouts](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/Delete a group of scouts.png)
4. Select **Delete Scouts**.

## Add Tags to Scouts

Apply tags to Scouts to organize and filter Scout lists, and to make Scouts available for tag-based permission scoping. For more details, see [Centralized Tags Management](/v1/docs/centralized-tags-management).

![Add tags to Scout](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/AddTagsToScout(2).png)

## Control Access to Scouts with Tags

In some environments, different teams are responsible for different Scouts. For example, one team might manage EUC Scouts, while another team manages network checks, application checks, office locations, or specific environments.

Tags help separate Scout management by operational scope. Users can filter the Scout list by tag to focus on the Scouts relevant to their work. Admins can also use tags in custom roles to control which Scouts users can see, edit, or delete.

This helps reduce noise for users and lowers the risk of unintended changes to Scouts managed by another team.

For more information about creating tags, applying tags to Scouts, and scoping permissions by tag, see [Centralized Tags Management](/v1/docs/centralized-tags-management).