Configure service update settings for your API Management Developer SKU

Apurva Pathak 890 Reputation points

Hello folks,

I was exploring options to see if we can schedule/ controls maintenance window of our APIM resource with Developer SKU, and I came across this doc for configuring Service Updates. As per this doc this feature is available to APIMs with Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium SKUs but I don't see any such option in our Developer Tier APIM.

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Am I missing anything?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Pravallika KV 17,025 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

    Hi @Apurva Pathak ,

    The key detail is that service update settings (including maintenance windows) are not something you can necessarily configure on every APIM tier.

    • Service update settings (preview) are available for Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium (it explicitly says “APPLIES TO: Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium”).
    • The workflow in the portal:
    • Deployment + infrastructure → Service update settings
      • From there you can edit Update group and Maintenance window.

    So if you don’t see “Service update settings” in your Developer tier APIM, you’re likely not missing anything it could be that:

    • the feature isn’t exposed in your current environment/region/resource setup, or
    • your resource doesn’t currently meet whatever prerequisite/feature-availability conditions are in place (the docs you provided don’t spell those out).

    Also worth noting (from the outage guidance):

    • The Developer SKU is intended for evaluation and doesn’t guarantee SLA, and it’s also described as having constraints during platform/service upgrades.
    1. Open the APIM instance and confirm the left-nav path:
      • Deployment + infrastructure → Service update settings
    2. If you still don’t see it, consider verifying whether the goal you want is instead covered by alerts:
      • APIM can emit service upgrade/update info via Activity Log, and you can create alerts there (the outage doc mentions that resource health alerts may not be sent for Developer SKU, but Activity Log approaches are still referenced).

    Hope this helps!

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    1. Pravallika KV 17,025 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

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  2. AI answer

    The service update settings feature (update groups and maintenance window) is only available in select tiers and regions, and the portal experience is still in preview. The documentation states that Azure periodically applies updates automatically and that, “in select service tiers you can choose an update group for your instance so that it receives updates earlier or later… You can also configure a maintenance window.” It also notes that this capability is available for Developer, Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers, but it does not guarantee availability for every instance.

    If the Deployment + infrastructure → Service update settings blade is not visible for a Developer tier instance, that instance is in a region or platform combination where the preview feature has not been enabled yet. In that case, the maintenance window and update group cannot be configured for that specific Developer SKU instance, even though the tier is listed as supported in general.

    There is no additional configuration step on the customer side to “turn on” the feature; once the feature is rolled out to the region/instance type, the Service update settings option appears automatically in the Azure portal.

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