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Laurens van de Venn 100 Reputation points
2024-05-16T10:10:49.8466667+00:00

Hello,

When to decide if number of APIM instances should be increased?

Regards,

Laurens van de Venn

Azure API Management
Azure API Management
An Azure service that provides a hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs.
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  1. Sreeju Nair 11,936 Reputation points
    2024-05-16T11:56:28.8266667+00:00

    The decision to upgrade or downgrade to be taken based on the capacity. Capacity is an indicator of load on an API Management instance. It reflects usage of resources (CPU, memory) and network queue lengths. Azure portal allows you to view the Capacity Metrics from the Azure portal and by using you can take scaling decision.

    There is a great article in Azure that explain how you can use capacity for scaling decisions, this should help you.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-capacity#use-capacity-for-scaling-decisions

    Also, it is interesting to note that you can configure auto-scaling. refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-autoscale

    Hope this helps