Issue with disabling Application Insights in Azure when it writes back to the Configuration file?

Question

I have created a .net App Service in Azure and Application Insights is turned on by default. I want to disable Application Insights. So i go to the Menu on the right Application Insights and disable it. But it leaves the following settings in the config file ,

"name": "APPINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATIONKEY",   
"name": "APPINSIGHTS_PROFILERFEATURE_VERSION",   
"name": "APPINSIGHTS_SNAPSHOTFEATURE_VERSION",   
"name": "APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING",   
"name": "ApplicationInsightsAgent_EXTENSION_VERSION",   
"name": "DiagnosticServices_EXTENSION_VERSION",   
"name": "InstrumentationEngine_EXTENSION_VERSION",   
"name": "SnapshotDebugger_EXTENSION_VERSION",   
"name": "XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_BaseExtensions",   
"name": "XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_Java",
"name": "XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_Mode",
"name": "XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_NodeJS",
"name": "XDT_MicrosoftApplicationInsights_PreemptSdk",

Can i simply delete these and the required settings will be set once I save the config , or is there any setting i can set that will remove and clean the config file ?

Answer 1

I had repro’d by disabling application insights in app service and found app service is working as expected.

Find the repro process that I have followed

Before repro:

When Application insight is enabled in the App service , below application settings will be shown

After disabling the application insights in App service it shows the list of new application settings.

Below are the list of application setting after deleting the few config’s and found that App service is working fine without any issues.

Later deleted all the config’s under the application settings and no issues found.

Note: Try it in a test environment or create a staging environment and try it.