Analyse what you need, as often as you need it
Per-device analysis policy and a collection cadence control, both asked for by name on a customer call. The same fleet that cost $110 a machine each month on the daily default costs about $5 on monthly.
Wegweiser has analysed every device on a daily cycle since it existed. That is the right default for a machine you have just onboarded and know nothing about. It is the wrong default for the other three hundred, and until this week there was no way to say so.
Two controls shipped this week, both of them named by a customer on a call rather than invented here.
Per-device analysis policy
Analysis settings used to be a tenant-wide switch. Turning something off turned it off everywhere, which meant that in practice nobody turned anything off.
Policy now resolves down the hierarchy. A setting made at tenant level applies to every device under it, a group can override the tenant, and a single device can override its group. The device page carries the control, so the machine you are looking at is the machine you are changing.
Worth stating plainly, because it is the sort of feature that ships and is never touched: this had never once been exercised before it shipped, and unexercised features are how things quietly stop working. It was verified against production data on a real device, inside a rolled-back transaction, at every level: no policy resolves to the default, a group policy reaches the device, a device policy overrides its group, and a baseline-only setting resolves to "never re-analyse" rather than to the literal zero that would have inverted the gate and re-analysed on every cycle.
Cadence
The second control is smaller and matters more.
Analysis cadence is now an interval you choose rather than a constant. Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or baseline-only, set per tenant and overridable further down. Nothing about what is collected changes. What changes is how often the collected data is put in front of a model.
That is the whole cost story, so here is the honest arithmetic. Measured across five Windows devices over a full day, a machine on the daily default consumes roughly 37 wegcoins per day, which is about 1,100 a month, which is about $110 per machine per month at list price. An earlier estimate we gave a customer said $30 to $40, and it was wrong: it assumed about six analysis runs per device per day when the real rate is 17 to 19, because each of the roughly 22 analysis types runs about once a day under the re-analysis gate.
On a monthly cadence the same machine costs about $5.
New tenants now start on monthly. Onboarding a client is exactly when daily earns its price, so turn it up for the first fortnight of a new estate and turn it back down when you have the picture. That is what the control is for.
What has not changed
Collection still runs on its own schedule. Cadence governs analysis, not visibility: the agent keeps reporting, the inventory stays current, the scanner keeps scanning, and live diagnostics are live whenever you ask for them. A device on monthly analysis is not a device you have stopped watching.