--- title: "Active Application" slug: "active-application" updated: 2025-07-02T15:17:38Z published: 2025-07-02T15:17:38Z canonical: "support.controlup.com/active-application" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.controlup.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Active Application With the **Active Application** feature (available in both Hybrid-Cloud & On-premises environments) you can show real-time information about the application that the user is working with, or the active URL in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Edge. Under the **Sessions** tab, you can see the relevant columns for the Active Application feature: - **Active Application**. Name of the application that is currently running in the foreground. - **Active Window Title**. Window title of the application currently running in the foreground. - **Active URL**. URL of the foreground browser tab. ![ControlUp sessions view highlighting the columns Active Application, Active Application Title, and Active URL.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28247%29.png) ## Enable settings and set rules for Active Application The Real-Time Console includes a dedicated settings tab for **Active Application**. To enable the feature, select **Settings** > **Active Application** > **Show Active Application Title** checkbox. ![Active Application Title Settings page. The option 'Show Active Application Title' is selected.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28248%29.png) In the **Active Application** tab, you can set different rules for what to display and ignore in the dedicated **Sessions** column. For example, you can select **not** to display the full title of the active window. #### Rule Guidelines Application titles containing the words you enter if you click **Add Rule** and enter a word in the **Keywords** field aren't displayed in the **Active Application Title** column. - The **Keywords** field supports wild cards: - *Excel* - ignores only the exact match. - **Excel* *- ignores any window title containing this word. - **Excel* - ignores any window title ending with "Excel". - *Excel** - ignores any window title beginning with "Excel". - Rules are not case sensitive. - Rules are not applied to browser names. Example: An organization doesn’t want Excel sheets including the word ‘paycheck’ to display in ControlUp since those are confidential documents. 1. In **Settings** > **Active Application** > click **Add Rule**. 2. In the Add Active Application Title Rule dialog box, enter the following to the **Keywords** field: **paycheck* *. 3. Click OK and the word **paycheck** is listed in the column with other keywords and the action applied is **Ignore**. Once the user opens an Excel sheet with the file name "Paycheck.xlsx", the Active Application Title in the Real-Time Console is shown as **[Hidden by rule]**. ## Enable settings and set rules for browser URLs The Real-Time Console includes a dedicated settings tab for **Browser URL.** ![Browser URLs settings button highlighted on the Settings ribbon of the Console.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28251%29.png) To enable displaying the **Active URL** column in the **Sessions** view and set rules for the feature: 1. Select **Settings** > **Browser URLs** > select **Monitor URLs for browser processes** checkbox. 2. Select the number of seconds for a URL to remain unchanged for that URL to be logged and to appear in the **Sessions** view. The default number is 3. 3. To set rules for the feature, click **Add Rule** and the **Add URL Rule** dialog opens. 4. Enter a **URL domain pattern** and select the way you want to view URLs in the **Logging settings** area. 5. Click **OK** and repeat for each URL domain. Your rules appear in the Browser URL Settings under these columns: **For URLs matching this domain pattern**, **This part of the URL is logged**. ## Security policy delegation ControlUp admins can delegate permissions on who can edit Active Applications & Browser URL settings with the following two policies in the [**Security Policy** pane](/v1/docs/security-policy-pane): - Manage application title settings - Manage browser URL settings. ## Process footprint & network impact The ControlUp cuAgentHelper process enables this feature. It is a lightweight component that consumes few resources, including: - CPU Usage - 0% on average. - RAM Usage - Up to 5MB memory utilization per user session. - Network Usage - 0 usage. It uses localhost UDP for communication with the agent. Enabling this feature does not require restarting the agent endpoints. When enabled on the Real-Time Console, the ControlUp Agent already running on the endpoints activates this feature on-the-fly. In cases where a user session is in the **Disconnected** state, the columns are blank. When a session goes into the **Disconnected** state, the cuAgentHelper process turns off for that session until **Active** again, and then the cuAgentHelper process automatically reopens. In cases of Published Applications, when the user interacts with the application, ControlUp shows the correct information: ![Console displaying 'ControlUp Manager' under the columns Active Application Title and XD Apps In Use.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28256%29.png) When the published application is not in use and the user does not interact within the published application realm, the console shows 'ICA Seamless Host Agent', but the application name is visible under **XD Apps In Use**. ![Console displaying 'ICA Seamless Host Agent' under Active Application Title, and showing 'ControlUp Manager' under XD Apps In Use.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28257%29.png) When no applications are running on the desktop, the columns are shown as follows: ![Active Application column showing 'explorer.exe'. Active Application Title showing 'Program Manager'.](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/image%28258%29.png)