What is Azure API Management, and How Do you Use It

1. What is Azure API Management, and How Do you Use It? SUMMARY: APIs make up a big part of online interactions today. Properly managing your API can make a big difference in your back-end services. That's where Azure comes in; here's more on it. Text Azure API management (APIM), according to an article on Microsoft, Azure, "is a way to create harmonious and modern API gateways for existing back-end services." In other words, APIM provides an interface for back-end services and APIs while ensuring they are well documented, monitored, maintained, secured, and published in the cloud. What can you do with APIM? Rate limiting APIM allows you to control the number of incoming requests. Since you know your APIs and are aware that it does not make sense for a requester to pay a bill eight times in a minute. Based on the keys you choose, you can limit the rates yourself. Monitor APIs It helps in identifying issues such as slow response. Through its metrics, you can analyze errors, performance, and back-end calls by using the diagnostic setting in Azure monitor. Analytics Azure API has an interface that can help you monetize your services and also integrate with

2. Application Insights. All the data you require is available on a dashboard. Security A security breach can be hazardous to your organization. With the use of Azure API management, user authorization can be integrated into the Azure active directory. There are three built-in groups: • Guests - customers fall in this group since they're unauthenticated developer portal users. They are granted certain read-only rights, such as the ability to view but not call APIs. • Administrators - Azure subscription administrators fall into this category. They can manage APIM service instances and also create APIs, products, and operations that will be used by the developers. • Developers - this group contains the authenticated developer portal users. These are the customers that build applications using your API and can access the developer portal and use applications that call the operations of an API. Unify back-end APIs A unified API interface is friendly to your clients. APIM works as harmonization to call you back, and it has whether they're on-premise or in Azure. Transform Data The policies in APIM let you transform payloads into different formats and also give you flexibility for your code policies. Cost management APIM has different pricing options to choose from: •Basic & Standard: they are both production level tiers that can be either entry-level production or medium volume production. •Developer & Premium: the developer tier is invaluable for developers that prefer the premium tier in production because they share the same features, such as vnet integration. •Consumption: also known as serverless consumption. One of its main advantages is it lets you pay for what you use. It also deploys very fast at two minutes as compared to others, approximately forty-five minutes, and it is great for testing APIs. The Consumption tier is also before production used because it has inbuilt high availability and auto-scaling. Performance The performance of requests can be improved through caching, which in turn makes your clients happy.

3. Azure API management is an exceptional tool that you can use to unify your back-end API landscape. It is especially useful if your APIs are mixed in different Azure services such as Functions, AKS, and App Service.