Azure ARM provide us any way to inspect the changes - azure

I am working with Azure Templates (ARM). I have to create a lot of resources and I will like to use some function to check what is going to be change in my infrastructure.
I searched a lot for any information related with this GREAT FEATURE (if there is one) but I did not find anything. So I will like to know if there is any way to see which resources are going to be change . I know about this for Chef and Ansible. So any suggestions or clue would be great.

No, unfortunately there is no feature to see that, but you should supply that to the feedback site. This is indeed a great idea.

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I want the MSIT Recommendad value for Application Insight.
How i can find it.
I have searched it on microsoft website but i can't able to find it.
thanks.
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The tutorials are available.
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Please let me know if you have an apporach to implement this on GSA?
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Mohan.
You are correct. You can achieve this either using the browsers local storage (ok if your users aren't mobile), otherwise you'll need to build this functionality yourself.
If you're building something yourself, take a look at the the click protocol or how the Google Analytics integration works for an example of how to track query data.

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I am working on Windows 7 OS and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web.
I have tried installing the Enterprise Library Config console but it says that the extension is not installable on this product. Am guessing I need Visual studio 2012 ultimate for it?
Since I cant afford it, is there any way that I can manually write the rules?
I have been reading the mammoth article of WASABi . Its a lot of theory and I have gone through most of it. I understand what kind of rules i should write to scale up or down but its not exactly a tutorial. For starters I dont know where I should store the rules.xml and how i should reference it to my windows azure application. Or where i should mention which roles should the rules.xml apply to etc. I know about AzureWatch which provides a simple UI to define all the scaling rules but again I cant afford it.
Hence I would really appreciate if anyone can throw some light or some sample tutorial etc to help me understand on how to get started on writing the scaling rules manually.
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