Send parameters to Azure APIM operation and then to backend api

Question

Hi i'm new to Azure API management, but i'm able to create an API in the APIM. now i want to pass a parameter to my apim which internally has to pass the value to my backend service.
example:
APIM url: https://devapi.microsoft.com/weatherforecast/{id}
backend url: https://test.azurewebsites.net

here in the backend i'm using a appservice and both the resources are in different tenant. can anyone please help me how to set the id value and pass it to the backend api url

I have created the template parameter as {id}

and set the policy as

please help me how to do this configuration, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi @SURYA LAKKOJU Thanks for reaching out. please see the configurations below,

request to your actual backend (app service in this case) is shown below

reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/import-and-publish
Debug your API's using request tracing please refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-api-inspector#trace-a-call

do let me know incase of further queries, I would be glad to assist you.

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