Quickstart: Create a new Azure API Management instance by using the Azure portal

APPLIES TO: All API Management tiers

This quickstart describes the steps for creating a new API Management instance by using the Azure portal. After creating an instance, you can use the Azure portal for common management tasks such as importing APIs in your API Management instance.

Azure API Management helps organizations publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services. API Management provides the core competencies to ensure a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. With API Management, create and manage modern API gateways for existing backend services hosted anywhere.

Prerequisites

If you don't have an Azure account, create a free account before you begin.

Create a new instance

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. Select Create a resource. You can also select Create a resource on the Azure Home page.

   

3. On the Create a resource page, select Integration > API Management.

   

4. On the Create API Management page, on the Basics tab, enter settings.

   

   Setting	Description
   Subscription	The subscription under which this new service instance will be created.
   Resource group	Select a new or existing resource group. A resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources are deployed and managed.
   Region	Select a geographic region near you from the available API Management service locations.
   Resource name	A unique name for your API Management instance. The name can't be changed later. The service name refers to both the service and the corresponding Azure resource. The service name is used to generate a default domain name: <name>.azure-api.net. If you would like to configure a custom domain name later, see Configure a custom domain.
   Organization name	The name of your organization. This name is used in many places, including the title of the developer portal and sender of notification emails.
   Administrator email	The email address to which all system notifications from API Management are sent.
   Pricing tier	Select a tier with the features you need. The Basic v2 tier is an economical choice for development and testing scenarios and is deployed in a few minutes.
   Units	The number of units of capacity for the selected pricing tier. For evaluating API Management, you can accept the default value of 1 unit.

5. On the Monitor + secure tab, optionally select one or more recommended add-in services to use with API Management. These services incur extra costs. For example, select Log Analytics to define a Log Analytics workspace you can target for API Management logs.

6. On the Networking tab, optionally select one or more networking options that are supported in your service tier to secure inbound or outbound traffic to API Management.

7. On the Managed identity tab, optionally enable a system-assigned managed identity for your instance. This is recommended for many scenarios to connect API Management to other Azure services.

8. On the Tags tab, optionally add one or more name-value pairs to help you categorize your Azure resources.

9. Select Review + create. After validation completes, select Create.

   Tip

   The time to create and activate an API Management service depends on the service tier. To quickly find a newly created service, select Pin to dashboard.

Go to your API Management instance

1. In the Azure portal, search for and select API Management services:

   

2. On the API Management services page, select your API Management instance:

   

Review the properties of your service on the Overview page.

When your API Management service instance is online, you're ready to use it. Start with the tutorial to import and publish your first API.

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, you can remove the resource group and all the related resources by following these steps:

1. In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups. You can also select Resource groups on the Home page.

   

2. On the Resource groups page, select your resource group.

   

3. On the resource group page, select Delete resource group.

4. Type the name of your resource group, and then select Delete.

   

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