Azure API Center Management for .NET: Centralized API Governance

Organizations with dozens or hundreds of APIs struggle to maintain visibility, enforce standards, and prevent duplication. Azure API Center provides a centralized inventory for all APIs — internal, external, managed, and unmanaged — with metadata, documentation, and governance policies.

What This Skill Does

Provides API inventory management, metadata and documentation storage, API versioning tracking, deployment environment tracking, governance policy enforcement, and integration with API Management and other services.

Getting Started

dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter

List APIs in your organization:

using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter;

ArmClient client = new(new DefaultAzureCredential());
var subscription = await client.GetDefaultSubscriptionAsync();

ApiCenterServiceResource apiCenter = await subscription
    .GetApiCenterServiceAsync("<resource-group>", "<api-center-name>");

await foreach (var api in apiCenter.GetApis())
{
    Console.WriteLine($"API: {api.Data.Name}, Kind: {api.Data.Kind}");
}

Key Features

Centralized Inventory provides single source of truth for all APIs. Metadata Management tracks owners, versions, and environments. Governance enforces naming conventions and standards. Discovery helps developers find existing APIs before building new ones.

When to Use

Use for enterprise API governance, preventing API sprawl, enforcing design standards, tracking API lifecycle, and enabling API discovery across teams. Essential for organizations with 10+ APIs.

Source

Maintained by Microsoft. View on GitHub