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title: "Monitoring and diagnostics"
slug: "monitoring-and-diagnostics"
abstract: "Monitoring and diagnostic recommendations."
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# Monitoring and diagnostics

Consider the following recommendations for monitoring and diagnostics. For more information, see Monitoring the health of web roles:

- Use **Application Insights** or **Azure Monitor** to track:
    - Cold start duration
    - Long-running requests
    - Memory pressure
- Set alerts for:
    - 5xx error spikes
    - High CPU/memory
    - Application restarts