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Manage Azure API Management Service APIs monitoring

Take full control of your Azure API Management Service APIs with Nodinite. This page shows how to manage monitoring options, view API details, and test APIs with secure Remote Actions, and how to delegate access for seamless API operations, all without direct Azure Portal access.

  • ✅ Give your team secure, role-based self-service for API management
  • ✅ Test APIs and inspect API operations to resolve issues instantly
  • ✅ Reduce risk by limiting direct Azure Portal access
  • ✅ Streamline support and maintenance for business agility

Use Nodinite to manage monitoring and perform remote administrative actions on APIs for your configured Azure API Management Services.

Start with Monitoring Azure API Management Service APIs for the monitoring context and state evaluation before you test or manage individual APIs below. The Monitoring Azure API Management Service page covers the parent service.

To manage other parts of Azure API Management Service with Nodinite, review these user guides:

Delegate control of all or individual APIs to selected team members and business Users. Nodinite lets your support and maintenance teams manage API issues without direct Azure Portal access. This approach reduces attack vectors and minimizes risk for mission-critical services.

Application Management Team IT Operations Business
Empower your AM team to detect and resolve application issues independently Maintain full operational control Enable business users with data and self-service for Azure API Management solutions

Management Features

For Resources in Role-based Monitor Views with Remote Actions privileges, Nodinite provides these Remote Actions grouped by Category:

Category Monitoring Actions Metrics/Statistics
API Management Service - API ✅ Yes Test API
Details
Edit
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As an Administrator with access to Configuration for Monitoring Agents, you can:

Monitoring Remote Configuration
Monitoring Azure API Management Service APIs
  • Add and Remove Azure API Management Service connections
  • Enable and Disable Monitoring as needed
  • Edit monitoring thresholds

API

Nodinite discovers one resource for each API from your configured Azure API Management Services in the 'API Management Service - API' Category. The Resource name combines the Display Name and the Name:

%Display Name% (%Name%)

Monitor View listing Azure API Management Service APIs as Resources
Example: Monitor View listing configured API Management Service APIs.

See Monitoring Azure API Management Service APIs for details about how Nodinite evaluates the state of each API.

The API Management Service - API category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to user-defined thresholds. When the state changes to Warning or Error, the Monitoring Service alerts you through Alarm Plugins.

Remote Actions

Nodinite provides these Remote Actions for the API Management Service - API Category:

  1. Details
  2. Edit
  3. Test API

Actions menu with Remote Actions for an API
Example: Remote Actions dropdown menu for the Actions button.

Details

To view a selected API, click the Action button and select Details from the 'Control Center' menu.
Details menu item in the Actions menu for an API
Select 'Details' to open the details modal for the chosen API.

Click the option to open the modal.
API details modal
Example: API details modal.

Expand the API Operations accordion to see all operations:

API Operations accordion listing the operations of an API
Example: API Operations list.

Test API

To test an API, click the Action button and select Test API from the 'Control Center' menu.
Test API menu item in the Actions menu
Test API menu item.

Click the option to open the modal.
Test API modal with the list of API operations
Test API modal example.

Click an operation to populate the parameters section:
Parameters section for the selected API operation
API Parameters for testing.

  1. Template parameters – As defined by the API
    • Name – Parameter name (read-only)
    • Value – Value to use
    • Type – Data type (read-only)
    • Description – Parameter description (read-only)
  2. Query parameters – Optional parameters
    • Name – Parameter name
    • Value – Value to use
    • Type – Data type (string; read-only)
    • Description – Parameter description (default; read-only)
  3. Headers – Headers to apply
    • Name – Header name
    • Value – Value to use
    • Type – Data type (read-only)
    • Description – Header description (read-only)
  4. Apply product scope – Select product scope if available
  5. Request URL – As defined by the API

Click Test to invoke the API.

Test button in the Test API modal
Test API button.

To log the requests and responses of your APIs, see the separate Azure API Management logging guide.

Edit

The Edit action is a placeholder for future enhancements. To request new features, visit the Support page.

Edit API modal
Example: Edit API modal.

Next Steps