From November 5, 2026, 2 changes affect how assets count toward your Lansweeper plan: monitors become billable, and every asset gets a licensed, unlicensed, or non-billable status.
Monitors become billable
From November 5, 2026, monitors will follow the same billing rule as every other asset type. Like any other billable asset, a monitor counts toward your plan once it's in your inventory and within your licensed limit. This applies to all monitors, including monitors without extended display data.
Tracking monitors keeps them in your inventory alongside your other assets, with warranty status, age, and replacement planning.
Control which monitors appear in your inventory
If you don't want to track monitors, you can keep them out of your inventory in 2 ways:
- Discovery exclusions: create an asset type exclusion for monitors. Asset type exclusions apply to your whole inventory, so this keeps out monitors from every discovery method. For step-by-step instructions, see Manage discovery exclusions.
- IT Agent setting: IT Agents will also have a setting to exclude monitors from scanning.
If there's a type of asset you no longer want to manage, you can create an asset type exclusion so Lansweeper stops discovering it. Keep in mind that an exclusion creates a blind spot: you lose visibility of that asset type across your environment. Exclusions don't remove assets already in your inventory, so delete those separately.
Assets get a licensed, unlicensed, or non-billable status
From November 5, 2026, every asset in your inventory shows one of 3 statuses:
- Licensed: counts toward your plan and shows full scan detail.
- Unlicensed: beyond your licensed limit. Still visible, with basic detail only.
- Non-billable: appears in your inventory but never counts toward your plan.
These statuses already apply to the Free plan. For how Lansweeper assigns each status and how to filter assets by status, see Licensed, unlicensed, and non-billable assets.
What to do before November 5
- Review the monitors in your inventory. From November 5, they count toward your plan like any other billable asset.
- Compare your inventory with your licensed limit. Billable assets beyond your limit become unlicensed and show only basic detail.