Azure API Center

aid: microsoft-azure-api-management:azure-api-center
name: Azure API Center
description: Azure API Center is the design-time governance and centralized discovery counterpart to Azure
  API Management. It enables organizations to track all of their APIs - regardless of type, lifecycle
  stage, or deployment location - along with version details, OpenAPI definitions, and metadata, for inventory,
  reuse, and governance. API Center registers APIs managed in Azure API Management and other gateways,
  supports linting and breaking-change detection in Visual Studio Code, and includes a private API Center
  portal and an MCP server registry. Customers with a linked API Management Standard, Standard v2, Premium,
  or Premium v2 instance can use the API Center Standard plan at no additional cost.
humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/overview
baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
tags:
- API Catalog
- API Discovery
- API Inventory
- Governance
- MCP Registry
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/overview
- type: KeyConcepts
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/key-concepts
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apicenter/
- type: VSCodeExtension
  url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=apidev.azure-api-center
- type: APICenterPortal
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/set-up-api-center-portal
- type: APIManagementSync
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/synchronize-api-management-apis
- type: MCPServerRegistry
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/register-discover-mcp-server
- type: CopilotStudioConnector
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/export-to-copilot-studio
- type: ShadowAPIDiscovery
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/discover-shadow-apis-dev-proxy