Configuring app settings and logging
It’s important to understand how to configure application settings and how your app makes of use them, which we will build on in the last section of this chapter. There are also various types of logging available with App Service, some of which are only available to Windows and can be stored and generated in different ways. So, let’s take a look.
Application settings
In the previous exercise, we navigated to the Configuration blade of our App Service to view an application configuration setting. We did the same thing in the previous chapter, without explaining the relevance of those settings in any detail. We’ll fill this gap now.
In App Service, application settings are passed as environment variables to your application at runtime. If you’re familiar with ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core and the appsettings.json or web.config files, these work in a similar way, but the App Service variables override the appsettings...
