APPLIES TO: All API Management tiers
With Azure Monitor, you can visualize, query, route, archive, and take actions on the metrics or logs coming from your Azure API Management service. For an overview of Azure Monitor for API Management, see Monitor API Management.
Tip
API teams can use this feature in workspaces. Workspaces provide isolated administrative access to APIs and their own API runtime environments.
In this tutorial, you learn how to:
API Management emits metrics every minute, giving you near real-time visibility into the state and health of your APIs. The following are the most frequently used metrics. For a list of all available metrics, see Metrics.
Capacity - helps you make decisions about upgrading/downgrading your API Management services. The metric is emitted per minute and reflects the estimated gateway capacity at the time of reporting. The metric ranges from 0-100 calculated based on gateway resources such as CPU and memory utilization and other factors.
Tip
In the v2 service tiers and in workspace gateways, API Management has replaced the gateway capacity metric with separate CPU and memory utilization metrics. These metrics can also be used for scaling decisions and troubleshooting. Learn more
Requests - helps you analyze API traffic going through your API Management services. The metric is emitted per minute and reports the number of gateway requests with dimensions. Filter requests by response codes, location, hostname, and errors.
Note
The Requests metric is not available in workspaces.
Important
The following metrics have been retired: Total Gateway Requests, Successful Gateway Requests, Unauthorized Gateway Requests, Failed Gateway Requests, Other Gateway Requests. Please migrate to the Requests metric which provides closely similar functionality.
To access metrics:
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance. On the Overview page, on the Monitor tab, review key metrics for your APIs.
To investigate metrics in detail, select Monitoring > Metrics from the left menu.
Tip
In a workspace, you can view capacity metrics scoped to a workspace gateway. Navigate to Monitoring > Metrics in the left menu of a workspace gateway.
From the drop-down, select metrics you're interested in. For example, Requests.
The chart shows the total number of API calls. Adjust the time range to focus on periods of interest.
You can filter the chart using the dimensions of the Requests metric. For example, select Add filter, select Backend Response Code Category, enter 500
as the value. The chart shows the number of requests failed in the API backend.
You can receive alerts based on metrics and activity logs. In Azure Monitor, configure an alert rule to perform an action when it triggers. Common actions include:
To configure an example alert rule based on a request metric:
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance.
Select Monitoring > Alerts from the left menu.
Select + Create > Alert rule.
On the Condition tab:
On the Actions tab, select or create one or more action groups to notify users about the alert and take an action. For example, create a new action group to send a notification email to admin@contoso.com
. For detailed steps, see Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal.
On the Details tab of Create an alert rule, enter a name and description of the alert rule and select the severity level.
Optionally configure the remaining settings. Then, on the Review + create tab, select Create.
Optionally test the alert rule by using an HTTP client to simulate a request that triggers the alert. For example, run the following command in a terminal, substituting the API Management hostname with the hostname of your API Management instance:
curl GET https://contoso.azure-api.net/non-existent-endpoint HTTP/1.1
An alert triggers based on the evaluation period, and it will send email to admin@contoso.com.
Alerts also appear on the Alerts page for the API Management instance.
Activity logs provide insight into the operations on your API Management services. Using activity logs, you can determine the "what, who, and when" for any write operations (PUT, POST, DELETE) taken on your API Management services.
Note
Activity logs do not include read (GET) operations or operations performed in the Azure portal.
You can access activity logs in your API Management service, or access logs of all your Azure resources in Azure Monitor.
To view the activity log:
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance.
Select Activity log.
Select the desired filtering scope and then Apply.
Resource logs (Azure Monitor logs) provide rich information about API Management operations and errors that are important for auditing and troubleshooting purposes. When enabled through a diagnostic setting, the logs collect information about the API requests that are received and processed by the API Management gateway.
Note
The Consumption tier doesn't support the collection of resource logs.
To configure a diagnostic setting for collection of resource logs:
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance.
In the left menu, under Monitoring, select Diagnostic settings > + Add diagnostic setting.
On the Diagnostic setting page, enter or select details for the setting:
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After configuring details for the log destination or destinations, select Save.
Note
Adding a diagnostic setting object might result in a failure if the MinApiVersion property of your API Management service is set to any API version higher than 2022-09-01-preview.
View logs and metrics in Azure Log AnalyticsIf you enable collection of logs or metrics in a Log Analytics workspace, it can take a few minutes for data to appear in Azure Monitor and the Azure Monitor-based dashboard for API Management (Monitoring > Analytics blade).
To view the data:
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance.
In the left menu, under Monitoring, select Logs.
Run queries to view the data. Several sample queries are provided, or run your own. For example, the following query retrieves the most recent 24 hours of data from the ApiManagementGatewayLogs table:
ApiManagementGatewayLogs
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1d)
For more information about using resource logs for API Management, see:
Modify API logging settingsWhen you use the portal to create a diagnostic setting to enable collection of API Management gateway or generative AI gateway (LLM) logs, logging is enabled with default settings. Default settings do not include details of requests or responses such as request or response bodies. You can adjust the logging settings for all APIs, or override them for individual APIs. For example, adjust the sampling rate or the verbosity of the gateway log data, enable logging of LLM request or response messages, or disable logging for some APIs.
For details about the logging settings, see the Diagnostic - Create or Update and the API diagnostic - Create or Update REST API reference pages.
To configure logging settings for all APIs:
To configure logging settings for a specific API:
Important
API Management enforces a 32 KB limit for the size of log entries sent to Azure Monitor. The behavior when a log entry exceeds the limit depends on the log category and the data attributes that are logged:
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