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Azure API Center as an Event Grid source (Preview)

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This article provides the properties and schema for Azure API Center events. For an introduction to event schemas, see Azure Event Grid event schema.

Note

This feature is currently in preview.

Available event types

These events are triggered when a client adds or updates an API definition.

Event name Description
Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionAdded Triggered when an API definition is added in an API center.
Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionUpdated Triggered when an API definition is updated in an API center.

Example event

When an event is triggered, the API Center service sends data about that event to subscribing endpoint. This section contains an example of what that data would look like for each API Center event.

Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionAdded event

JSON 
[{
  "source": "/subscriptions/{subscription_id}/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.ApiCenter/services",
  "subject": "/subscriptions/{subscription_id}/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.ApiCenter/services/{api_center_name}/workspaces/default/apis/{api_name}/versions/{version_name}/definitions/{definition_name}",
  "type": "Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionAdded",
  "time": "2024-03-01T00:00:00.0000000Z",
  "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "data": {
    "title": "OpenAPI",
    "description": "Default spec",
    "specification": {
      "name": "openapi",
      "version": "3.0.1"
    }
  },
  "specversion": "1.0"
}]

Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionUpdated event

JSON 
[{
  "source": "/subscriptions/{subscription_id}/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.ApiCenter/services",
  "subject": "/subscriptions/{subscription_id}/resourceGroups/{resource_group_name}/providers/Microsoft.ApiCenter/services/{api_center_name}/workspaces/default/apis/{api_name}/versions/{version_name}/definitions/{definition_name}",
  "type": "Microsoft.ApiCenter.ApiDefinitionUpdated",
  "time": "2024-03-01T00:00:00.0000000Z",
  "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "data": {
    "title": "OpenAPI",
    "description": "Default spec",
    "specification": {
      "name": "openapi",
      "version": "3.0.1"
    }
  },
  "specversion": "1.0"
}]

Event properties

An event has the following top-level data:

Property Type Description
source string Full resource path to the event source. This field isn't writeable. Event Grid provides this value.
subject string Publisher-defined path to the event subject.
type string One of the registered event types for this event source.
time string The time the event is generated based on the provider's UTC time.
id string Unique identifier for the event.
data object Azure API Center event data.
specversion string CloudEvents schema specification version.

The data object has the following properties:

Property Type Description
title string The title of the API definition.
description string The description of the API definition.
specification string The API specification properties, consisting of name (specification name) and version (specification version)

Tutorials and how-tos

Title Description
Enable linting and analysis for API governance in your API center Use Event Grid events to trigger linting to analyze API definitions in your API center.

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