Azure API Management
Azure API Management allows organisations to publish APIs more securely, reliably and at scale. Use API Management to drive API consumption among internal teams, partners and developers while benefiting from business and log analytics available in the admin portal. This service helps provide the tools with your organisation needs for end-to-end API management – everything from provisioning user roles, creating usage plans and quotas, applying policies for transforming payloads, throttling, analytics, monitoring and alerts.
APIs are developed and deployed on the Internet and inside organisations, it has become important to manage the whole life cycle of an API. API Management enables both developers and architects to manage the key stages of an API as it designed, published and shared with its consumer base. Key aspects of security, documentation, API growth and other important requirements can all be managed with API Management.
API management service can offer a multitude of features. However, it is important that they offer an environment that makes designing, deploying and managing the API easier. But more specifically you want your API management to offer the following:
· A Gateway server that allows controlled access to backend services.
· Documentation and Publishing Tools.
· Access Portal. A central point for developers to manage API keys, documentation, SDKs.
· Reporting and Analytics. Monitor usage and report on trends.
