> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.condense.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# How Insights follows your connector
> Insights starts when your connector starts, compares what you reserved with what it uses, and shows a recommendation when a figure stops fitting.
You do not switch Insights on, and you do not install anything. It starts when your connector starts, and it speaks up when what you reserved stops fitting what the connector uses.
```mermaid theme={null}
flowchart LR
A["You deploy"] --> B["Insights
watches"]
B --> C["A figure stops
fitting"]
C --> D["A
recommendation"]
D --> E["You accept
or dismiss"]
E --> F["Applied,
one restart"]
```
## Before you deploy
Nothing is measured yet, so the four figures are your best guess. A guess is fine. The first recommendation exists to correct it.
If you do not know what to enter, enter something sensible. A generous placeholder is safe, but you keep paying for it until you act on the recommendation to lower it. See [Choose what your connector reserves](https://docs.condense.io/condense/v3.0.0/autoscaling/choose-what-your-connector-reserves.md).
## When your connector starts
Watching begins on its own. What you will not have straight away is a recommendation. Insights needs about 8 minutes of your connector's activity first, so until then the Insights tab says it is still gathering, shows when you deployed, and says when to expect recommendations.
The Insights tab at the start: still gathering, with the time to expect recommendations.
A connector you stop and deploy again starts this period again, because what counts is what it did while it was working. So does a clone: a cloned connector starts gathering as a new one, and it is measured on its own, apart from the connector it was cloned from.
## While it runs
Insights compares two things: the figures you entered, and the figures Condense recommends from what your connector has actually used. The Insights tab keeps up as either side changes, so you do not need to refresh it.
You can read both figures on the Insights tab whenever you like, even when nothing is being recommended.
## When something is worth changing
A recommendation appears on the Insights tab, a count shows on the tab, a lightbulb shows on the connector's card, and you are told once. You are not told again because the same thing is still true.
A recommendation is a state, not an alert: it appears when one of the situations is true, stays while it is true, and goes away by itself when it is not. See [What Insights can tell you](https://docs.condense.io/condense/v3.0.0/autoscaling/what-insights-can-tell-you.md).
## After you accept
Your connector is updated and restarts once. The deployment form shows the figures you accepted, and the recommendation is withdrawn once your figures fit again. If the same situation comes back later, you get a new recommendation, not a queue of them. See [Accept, dismiss or set your own](https://docs.condense.io/condense/v3.0.0/autoscaling/accept-dismiss-or-set-your-own.md).
## Next steps
> [card] [Choose what your connector reserves](https://docs.condense.io/condense/v3.0.0/autoscaling/choose-what-your-connector-reserves.md)
>
> Set the four figures well from the start.
> [card] [When Insights has nothing to say](https://docs.condense.io/condense/v3.0.0/autoscaling/when-insights-has-nothing-to-say.md)
>
> Why a quiet Insights tab is usually good news.
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