About Credentials
- Last Updated: April 2, 2026
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You can apply credentials to a devices at discovery or rescan time, as part of credential maintenance, and as new or additional monitors require them.
- Credentials are needed for network discovery.
- Each credential type you apply can affect the richness of information returned for discovering, monitoring, and reporting purposes.
- For core WhatsUp Gold performance monitors (CPU utilization, Memory Utilization) you need at least SNMP or Windows credentials during network discovery.