When you have a lot of APIs in Azure API Management, the view can become unwieldy. By applying tags to your APIs you can group and filter them in both the Azure Portal and the Developer Portal. In this post I’ll show you how to assign tags to APIs using Bicep and how to automatically bubble up operation-level tags from an OpenAPI spec to the API level.
In this post, I’ll show you how to implement (regional) failover in Azure API Management using priority-based load-balanced pools, backend circuit breakers and retry policies. The setup sends traffic to the local backend by default and automatically fails over to the secondary backend when the primary backend becomes unavailable.
Learn how to use Azure API Management’s rate-limit and rate-limit-by-key policies to protect backends from overwhelming traffic and fairly distribute capacity among clients. Includes practical examples, monitoring guidance and key considerations for different scenarios.
Sometimes you just want to forward any request from Azure API Management to a backend without defining a detailed API contract. In this post I show how to create a simple Catch-All API that supports multiple HTTP methods and matches any URL.
Learn how to implement centralized error handling in Azure API Management at the global scope, reducing duplicate logic and ensuring consistent error responses across all APIs while maintaining flexibility for custom scenarios.
By default, Azure API Management returns all headers from the backend to the client, which may include sensitive information. This post demonstrates three approaches to sanitizing response headers: explicit removal, allowlist-based filtering and blocklist-based filtering.
