title: Application Map in Azure Application Insights | Microsoft Docs description: Monitor complex application topologies with the application map services: application-insights documentationcenter: '' author: mrbullwinkle manager: carmonm
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Application Map helps you spot performance bottlenecks or failure hotspots across all components of your distributed application. Each node on the map represents an application component or its dependencies; and has health KPI and alerts status. You can click through from any component to more detailed diagnostics, such as Application Insights events. If your app uses Azure services, you can also click through to Azure diagnostics, such as SQL Database Advisor recommendations.
Components are independently deployable parts of your distributed/microservices application. Developers and operations teams have code-level visibility or access to telemetry generated by these application components.
- Components are different from "observed" external dependencies such as SQL, EventHub etc. which your team/organization may not have access to (code or telemetry).
- Components run on any number of server/role/container instances.
- Components can be separate Application Insights instrumentation keys (even if subscriptions are different) or different roles reporting to a single Application Insights instrumentation key. The preview map experience shows the components regardless of how they are set up.
You can see the full application topology across multiple levels of related application components. Components could be different Application Insights resources, or different roles in a single resource. The app map finds components by following HTTP dependency calls made between servers with the Application Insights SDK installed.
This experience starts with progressive discovery of the components. When you first load the application map, a set of queries are triggered to discover the components related to this component. A button at the top-left corner will update with the number of components in your application as they are discovered.
On clicking "Update map components", the map is refreshed with all components discovered until that point.
If all of the components are roles within a single Application Insights resource, then this discovery step is not required. The initial load for such an application will have all its components.
One of the key objectives with this experience is to be able to visualize complex topologies with hundreds of components.
Click on any component to see related insights and go to the performance and failure triage experience for that component.
Select investigate failures to launch the failures pane.
To troubleshoot performance problems select investigate performance
Select go to details to explore the end-to-end transaction experience which can offer views done to the call stack level.
To query and investigate your applications data further click view in analytics.
To view active alerts and the underlying rules that cause the alerts to be tiggered, select alerts.
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