Develop APIs faster, smarter, and more securely

Select from over 60 customizable policies to manage traffic, enhance security, and transform API requests and responses—without the need to develop or maintain logic in your application code.

GitHub enhances API development with version control, collaboration tools, CI/CD automation, comprehensive documentation, and security features, ensuring efficient API development and deployment.

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool that suggests code snippets and functions as you type, speeding up API development and improving productivity.

Visual Studio and VS Code support your API development with templates for quick project setup, IntelliSense for intelligent code completion, robust debugging tools, and integrated version control for seamless collaboration and code management. 

Trace API requests to pinpoint execution issues and performance bottlenecks. Use detailed metrics and logs to effectively measure API performance and troubleshoot errors. 

Generate high-scale load and run simulations with a fully managed load-testing service for Azure. Quickly create tests or upload Apache JMeter scripts. Gain insights into performance, scalability, and capacity, supporting continuous improvement through automated CI/CD workflows.

Build robust apps by simulating different API errors and behaviors. Without changing your app's code, see how it handles throttling, rate limiting and other errors. Mock APIs and responses to speed up app development.

Playwright allows you to write automated tests for APIs, integrating them with your CI/CD system for continuous testing and quality assurance.

Manage and secure API runtime with gateways in the cloud or on-premises. Easily monitor, analyze, and report API performance and usage.

Identify threats and malicious traffic patterns with ML-based detections. Classify APIs serving sensitive data, assess their security posture, and prioritize risk remediation.

This service aids in centralized API discovery and governance, ensuring that APIs are well-documented and consistent, which helps mitigate understanding and documentation challenges.

Document and publish APIs for consumption within or outside your organization with the customizable, built-in developer portal. Control and monitor API access and usage by consumers.

Effortlessly generate Open API specs for your APIs to benefit from integration tooling. Optimize API usage in your app by analyzing its requests.
Detect the use of non-production APIs and make your apps more reliable.

Simplify consumption of your OpenAPI by creating API plugins that empower Copilot with real-time data access and resource management, or generate tailored HTTP API clients in various languages to streamline API interactions.

Keep track of your API inventory by registering and managing different API versions. Maintain oversight by knowing where these APIs and their respective versions are deployed, ensuring you have a clear view of your API landscape.

Evolve and change your APIs with revisions and versions, without impacting consumers. Monitor older API versions and proactively reduce their usage before deprecation.

Automatically identify dormant API endpoints that expand your cybersecurity attack surface.

Detect the use of deprecated APIs, ensuring that no applications are unexpectedly affected by the retirement.