Develop APIs faster, smarter, and more securely
Transform your API development journey with developer-friendly tools and services.
API lifecycle stages
API lifecycle excellence with Microsoft
Azure API Center
Azure API Center helps ensure your APIs meet organizational standards by allowing you to register and validate your API definitions against organizational style guides.
Azure API Management
Design REST APIs, import APIs from Azure services, or expose backends as GraphQL APIs. Quickly mock APIs to accelerate and parallelize client and backend development and enable collaboration across teams.
Dev Proxy
Quickly test your API design ideas by creating mock APIs, testing them with apps, simulating CRUD operations, and securing APIs with Microsoft Entra ID.
TypeSpec
TypeSpec is an extensible API design language designed for "API First" web service development. TypeSpec docs serve as the "source of truth" for web services and are used to generate and update all artifacts related to a service, including OpenAPI, documentation, client and server stubs, relieving developers of the burden of coordinating changes between those artifacts. TypeSpec is built by Microsoft and supported by the community.
Azure API Management
Select from over 60 customizable policies to manage traffic, enhance security, and transform API requests and responsesβwithout the need to develop or maintain logic in your application code.
GitHub
GitHub enhances API development with version control, collaboration tools, CI/CD automation, comprehensive documentation, and security features, ensuring efficient API development and deployment.
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool that suggests code snippets and functions as you type, speeding up API development and improving productivity.
Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio and VS Code support your API development with templates for quick project setup, IntelliSense for intelligent code completion, robust debugging tools, and integrated version control for seamless collaboration and code management.
Azure API Management
Trace API requests to pinpoint execution issues and performance bottlenecks. Use detailed metrics and logs to effectively measure API performance and troubleshoot errors.
Azure Load Testing
Generate high-scale load and run simulations with a fully managed load-testing service for Azure. Quickly create tests or upload Apache JMeter scripts. Gain insights into performance, scalability, and capacity, supporting continuous improvement through automated CI/CD workflows.
Dev Proxy
Build robust apps by simulating different API errors and behaviors. Without changing your app's code, see how it handles throttling, rate limiting and other errors. Mock APIs and responses to speed up app development.
Playwright
Playwright allows you to write automated tests for APIs, integrating them with your CI/CD system for continuous testing and quality assurance.
Azure API Management
Manage and secure API runtime with gateways in the cloud or on-premises. Easily monitor, analyze, and report API performance and usage.
Microsoft Defender for APIs
Identify threats and malicious traffic patterns with ML-based detections. Classify APIs serving sensitive data, assess their security posture, and prioritize risk remediation.
Playwright
Playwright allows you to write automated tests for APIs, integrating them with your CI/CD system for continuous testing and quality assurance.
Azure API Center
This service aids in centralized API discovery and governance, ensuring that APIs are well-documented and consistent, which helps mitigate understanding and documentation challenges.
Azure API Management
Document and publish APIs for consumption within or outside your organization with the customizable, built-in developer portal. Control and monitor API access and usage by consumers.
Dev Proxy
Effortlessly generate Open API specs for your APIs to benefit from integration tooling. Optimize API usage in your app by analyzing its requests.
Detect the use of non-production APIs and make your apps more reliable.
Kiota
Simplify consumption of your OpenAPI by creating API plugins that empower Copilot with real-time data access and resource management, or generate tailored HTTP API clients in various languages to streamline API interactions.
Azure API Center
Keep track of your API inventory by registering and managing different API versions. Maintain oversight by knowing where these APIs and their respective versions are deployed, ensuring you have a clear view of your API landscape.
Azure API Management
Evolve and change your APIs with revisions and versions, without impacting consumers. Monitor older API versions and proactively reduce their usage before deprecation.
Microsoft Defender for APIs
Automatically identify dormant API endpoints that expand your cybersecurity attack surface.
Dev Proxy
Detect the use of deprecated APIs, ensuring that no applications are unexpectedly affected by the retirement.
Featured products
Unleash the power of your APIs with our developer-friendly products
Azure API Management
Azure API Management is an established, fully managed Azure service that enables developers to efficiently and effectively manage APIs throughout their lifecycle, across cloud and on-premise environments. It provides an API gateway, a developer portal, and administrative controls to streamline and enhance API design, development, publishing, security, and monitoring.
Azure API Center
Azure API Center offers a centralized inventory solution for API discovery, reusability, and governance, making it easier for developers to manage APIs across different environments and stages of their lifecycle. Increase developer's productivity by streamlining the discovery process, making it an attractive tool for developers looking to maintain high-quality and compliant APIs efficiently.
Dev Proxy
Dev Proxy is a command-line tool that helps developers build and test resilient applications by simulating API behaviors like errors, delays, and rate limiting. It works across platforms and tech stacks, allowing developers to identify and fix issues early, ensuring their applications are robust and reliable.
APIs in Action
APIs in Action
Explore the latest trends and best practices in the Microsoft API landscape.
15 mins
Azure API Management from a developer perspective
16 mins
Better API Governance with Azure API Center
12 mins
OpenAPI now vs. the future
28 mins
APIOps: Transforming Azure APIM Deployments with GitOps and DevOps Methodologies
16 mins
Enhance your API security posture with Microsoft Defender for APIs
25 mins
API Developer Experience (DevEx)
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