Introduction
In this article, we will discuss the Azure API management service introduction, why we use API azure management service, how azure API management is used, and the benefits of azure API Management Service.
What is Azure API Management?
Azure API Management is a dependable, secure, and scalable method for managing APIs operating on the Microsoft Azure platform. Azure API Management provides all necessary tools for end-to-end management of APIs. It guarantees the APIs' optimum performance, monitors usage, enforces authentication, and more.

It acts as a proxy for your backend APIs and sits on top of them. In this illustration, our two backend APIs are on top of the Azure API Management Service (Weather API and Employee API). The Azure API management service always makes these two backend API calls.
Why use Azure API Management Service
Let's first examine the benefits of using the Azure API management service. The advantages it offers. Let's use an easy example to understand this.
Take into account this offering from OpenweatherMap (https://openweathermap.org/price). It is a reasonably well-known API that offers weather information, including temperature, wind speed, humidity, and others. We must pay a monthly charge to utilize this API. There is also a free plan; however, it has restrictions.
- Number of permitted calls
- What information is accessible, for how long, etc.
- You can make up to 600 calls per minute and 10 million calls per month with the $40 plan. This has fewer limitations than the free plan.
We must subscribe and obtain an API key to access this API in our developing apps. We also need to know the supported operations, what can be passed, and what may be returned.
The API's primary job is to deliver weather information. The API should incorporate code to restrict the number of calls and its primary functionality. As an illustration, the free plan only permits 60 calls per minute. To avoid misuse and abuse, the API should additionally feature code that restricts the number of calls to 60 per minute. The majority of APIs must have several non-functional features, like as
- Using caching to boost performance
- Accessing and securing the API
- Documentation including supported operations, possible endpoints, what to pass, and what we receive back
- Developers and partners must have access to a developer portal or self-service tool to sign up and get documentation, code samples, and even an interface to test API calls.
- Another crucial element is API analytics, which enables you to monitor API usage. The most and least used endpoints, the overall condition of the API, etc.
The Azure API Management Service offers all of these non-functional features of the API.