# Application Insights

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We recommend enabling Application Insights to receive a graphical representation of data about your SCEPman instance such as Failed requests, Availability, and Server response time over a given duration.
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To activate the Application Insights for your App Service, please follow these instructions:

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### Navigate to your SCEPman App Service

Azure > App Services > app-scepman-xxxxxx
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### Select and Turn on Application Insights

On the lefthand menu, expand Monitoring > Application Insights

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### Create a new Application Insights resource

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For Windows based deployments, select **.NET** and select the **Collection level Recommended.** (For Linux based deployment, please choose **.NET Core**)

**Profiler** and **Snapshot debugger** should be turned on by default already.

Leave **Show local variables \[...]** as *Off*, otherwise, Application Insights may cause startup delays and error messages.

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### Apply settings

You're now set to use Application Insights for SCEPman!
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