Azure API Center documentation

Azure API Center helps you develop and maintain a structured inventory of your organization's APIs. Azure API Center enables API discovery, reuse, and governance at scale.

About Azure API Center

Get Started

• What is Azure API Center?
• Key concepts
• Frequently asked questions

Manage your API inventory

Quickstart

• Create your API center

Tutorial

• 1 - Customize metadata properties
• 2 - Add APIs to the inventory
• 3 - Add environments and deployments

How-To Guide

• Manage inventory - Azure CLI
• Import APIs from API Management
• Build and register APIs - VS Code extension

Govern APIs

How-To Guide

• Analyze APIs using linting rules

Concept

• Use metadata for governance

Discover APIs

How-To Guide

• Self-host Azure API Center portal
• Discover APIs with GitHub Copilot Chat