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title: "Add a custom application group"
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The Custom App Groups and Policies page is used to create application groups and lists existing user-defined groups. Application groups are used for the following purposes: To display statistics of several user-defined applications as a single graph. For example, you could group all of your social media applications and monitor the associated traffic for all of them together. To manage a group of applications using  group control policies . To add a custom application group Log in to MyAryaka. The Home page appears. Click  SD-WAN  >  Applications  in the left navigation pane. The Applications page appears. Click  Manage  in the Custom App Groups and Policies tile. The Custom App Groups and Policies page appears and displays a table of application groups. Click the  Add  icon.  The Add Custom App Groups and Policies page appears. Enter a name and a description for this application group in the appropriate Details fields. Click  Add New . The Add Application dialog appears. Do one of the following to add applications to the new group: Click one or more applications in the Name column. The selected applications appear highlighted in a dark band. Click  Select All  to select  every  application. This results in a large, difficult-to-mange list of applications. Enter a text string in the Search field, then select one or more of the results or click  Select All  to select all of the matching search results. Click  Add Selected . Your selections from step 6 appear in the Applications table on the Add Application Group page. You can click the  Delete  icon in any row to remove the corresponding application. Click  Submit .  You are prompted to select one of the following submit options:  Activate Later  or  Activate Now . See  Activate configuration updates  for details. Related Topics Create an application group control policy Manage custom application groups Manage custom applications  Add a custom application Related videos Configure application groups Configure routing policies for application groups