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+#  Copyright © Microsoft Corporation
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+
+# This file is place holder for all the common configuration across services. The properties
+# which are common across all services can be placed here.
+#
+# In order to use the properties in this file (i.e., common.properties) in any service, configure
+# the environment variable SPRING_CONFIG_NAME = common,application in that service. Doing this will
+# configure the service to use properties from this file along with application.properties of that service.
+
+
+#Enable tomcat metrics
+server.tomcat.mbeanregistry.enabled=true
+
+#Tomcat threads configuration
+server.tomcat.min-spare-threads=100
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