Monitor Your API Management Service

Effective monitoring is crucial for understanding the health, performance, and usage of your Azure API Management instances. This section provides a comprehensive set of tutorials to help you set up and utilize various monitoring capabilities.

Introduction to Azure Monitor for API Management

Get started with Azure Monitor and discover how it integrates with API Management for comprehensive insights.

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Configuring Diagnostics Settings

Learn to send API Management logs and metrics to different destinations like Log Analytics, Storage Accounts, and Event Hubs.

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Analyzing Logs with Log Analytics

Master Kusto Query Language (KQL) to analyze API Management request, gateway, and audit logs for troubleshooting and performance analysis.

Example KQL query to find failed requests:

APIManagementGatewayLogs
| where StatusCode >= 400
| project TimeGenerated, OperationName, CallerIpAddress, BackendResponseCode, StatusCode
| order by TimeGenerated desc
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Setting Up Alerts

Create custom alerts based on metrics or log data to proactively notify you of potential issues.

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Monitoring API Usage and Performance Metrics

Understand key performance indicators (KPIs) and how to track them using Azure Monitor metrics.

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Integrating with Application Insights

Deep dive into tracking requests, responses, and dependencies for your APIs hosted on Azure API Management.

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Advanced Troubleshooting Scenarios

Explore common issues and how to use monitoring tools to diagnose and resolve them efficiently.

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