azure api management already exists

VREMES Vlad 36

How do you delete API management if you have already deleted it?

I get error that the azure api management already exists when I try to deploy a new one, but I have already deleted it in the azure portal.

I cannot deleted it even with powershell.

James Hughes 86 Reputation points

2022-03-22T18:41:54.663+00:00

I wrote an article with some PowerShell code that wraps the REST calls, so you can just pass parameters to a PowerShell function.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/purging-azure-api-management-instance-james-hughes/

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MayankBargali-MSFT 69,756 Reputation points

2021-02-03T10:54:56.717+00:00

Hi @VREMES Vlad

Apologies for any inconvenience with this issue.

Recently product team has implemented the API Management soft delete feature. In this feature, you can recover and restore recently deleted API Management (APIM) instances. If your APIM instance is not recovered within 48 hours, it will be hard deleted (unrecoverable).

You can also choose to purge (permanently delete) your APIM instance, forgoing soft-delete retention period. Therefore once you have deleted the APIM service you need to purge soft delete APIM instance as this feature will help customers to recover their APIM service in accidental delete.

Please execute purge API to permanently delete your service so you can recreate it again with the same name. To pass the required parameter in execute purge API please execute the Deleted Service API detail API.

The API Management soft delete document has all the required information. Feel free to get back to me if you need any assistance.

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VREMES Vlad 36 Reputation points

2021-02-03T10:58:35.957+00:00

it is unclear how to execute the purge, how can you purge the API?

MayankBargali-MSFT 69,756 Reputation points

2021-02-03T11:02:36.767+00:00

Please refer to API Management soft delete feature document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/soft-delete

VREMES Vlad 36 Reputation points

2021-02-03T11:06:44.467+00:00

it is unclear how to execute the purge, how can you purge the API?

I get the following error
{
"error": {
"code": "AuthenticationFailed",
"message": "Authentication failed. The 'Authorization' header is missing."
}
}

how is this supposed to work? It cannot be done in powershell or any other way?

MayankBargali-MSFT 69,756 Reputation points

2021-02-03T12:29:51.797+00:00

@VREMES Vlad Once you navigate to the Purge API document you will find the option Try It. Select your Azure account and the Authorization header will be generated for you.
Enter the details and click on Run API

If you want to learn about Azure REST API you can refer to this

VREMES Vlad 36 Reputation points

2021-02-03T14:48:14.953+00:00

It somehow worked, very bad way of doing this.

Why is this only available in this "Azure REST API" stuff and why does the portal just soft delete the api management?
Why is this not allowed in the azure portal or powershell?
What is the purpose of the portal if not to manage Azure resources?

MayankBargali-MSFT 69,756 Reputation points

2021-02-04T07:14:04.38+00:00

@VREMES Vlad Sorry for your experience. This is a new feature to help customers during accidental deletion of the resource where we reserve the service and DNS name for 48 hours before permanent deletion. So customers can recover their services without any issue. In the future, it may be available in the newer version of APIM PowerShell commandlets once Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI supports 2020-06-01-preview version as currently, they don't support it.

As the resource is deleted so you cannot perform any further actions on that resource from Azure portal. Please feel free to raise a feature request on UserVoice to support it, if this is something that you would want to see in azure portal.

Drake, Joshua 11 Reputation points

2021-09-08T13:44:16.45+00:00

People actually using this would know in about 5 minutes if it was broke.
These resources do not show in the Azure Portal.
There is no option to hard delete when deleting.

This is a horribly bad user experience.

Mafalda Barbosa 1 Reputation point

2021-10-07T10:54:08.647+00:00

Purge API is 404-not found, is there still no powershell alternative? How are automated pipelines suppose to handle this?
And were using Api version "2019-04-01", this shouldn't even be happening in the 1st place according to documentation...
Thank you

MayankBargali-MSFT 69,756 Reputation points

2021-10-08T08:00:54.74+00:00

@Mafalda Barbosa As the version 2020-06-01-preview document has been removed now we are getting 404 error on the document.
There are other latest version available 2020-12-01, 2021-01-01-preview and 2021-04-01-preview. Please refer to reference section on the API Management REST document.

Please refer to latest Purge API version 2021-04-01-preview document. I will work with the document team to fix the broken link here.
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