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MCP Test Console and Git Repository synch in Azure API Center

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:14:00 Z

Why This Matters As organizations race to build AI-powered applications, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the standard way to connect AI agents with external tools and data sources. ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Azure API Center Introduces a Data Plane MCP Server for Enterprise-Wide API and AI Asset Discovery

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:11:00 Z

As organizations scale their adoption of MCP-based tooling and AI agents, one challenge keeps surfacing: developers spend too much time figuring out what APIs, tools, and AI assets exist — and then m...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Find what you need, faster: Azure API Center now supports custom metadata filtering

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:07:00 Z

Enterprise API and AI catalogs have expanded dramatically. Where teams once managed dozens of APIs, they now govern hundreds — spanning business units, environments, compliance domains, and an ever-g...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

GA: Azure API Center Now Supports Plugin Registration

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:04:00 Z

As organizations scale their AI and integration ecosystems, one challenge keeps surfacing: developers don't have a reliable, governed way to discover and reuse the plugins their teams have already bu...
Update Type: GA, Services: API Center, Categories:

Azure API Center now supports agent registration, agent assessment, and Git-based synchronization

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:03:00 Z

What's new Three capabilities are now generally available: Capability What it does Agent registration Register agents directly into the enterprise catalog for cross-team discovery and ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Azure API Center now provides a data plane MCP server for enterprise-wide discovery of APIs and AI assets.

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations adopt MCP-based tooling and AI agents at scale, developers need a simpler way to discover and connect to the growing ecosystem of enterprise MCP servers, tools, APIs, and AI assets. With this update, Azure API Center introduces a data pl
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Management

Azure API Center now supports agent registration, agent assessment, and Git-based synchronization.

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z

As organizations increasingly build autonomous AI agents to automate workflows and orchestrate enterprise tasks, developers need a centralized way to discover, govern, and reuse these capabilities across teams. With this update, Azure API Center enables
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Management

Azure API Center portal is now generally available

Tue, 19 May 2026 20:42:00 Z

What Is the API Center Portal? The API Center portal is a hosted, provisioned and managed by Azure, where developers across your organization can discover, explore, and consume APIs. The API Center...
Update Type: GA, Services: API Center, Categories:

Introducing AI Skill Assessment in Azure API Center

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:50:00 Z

As AI skills become central to enterprise automation and intelligent workflows, ensuring their quality, safety, and discoverability at scale is a growing challenge. Today, we're excited to announce s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Introducing the plugin marketplace for Azure API Center

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:47:00 Z

Today, we're excited to announce the public preview of the plugin marketplace endpoint for Azure API Center. This new capability makes it easier than ever for developers to discover and install AI pl...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Introducing Skills in Azure API Center

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:31:00 Z

The problem Modern applications depend on more than APIs. A single AI workflow might call an LLM, invoke an MCP tool, integrate a third-party service, and reference a business capability spanning d...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

Model Context Protocol support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:30:17 Z

Announcing the public preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure API Management and Azure API Center. With this new capability, enterprises can transform their existing APIs into dynamic, agent-ready tools, while improving security and simpl
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Management

Announcing: API Center Standard now included at no additional cost for linked Azure API Management Standard and Premium tiers

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:16 Z

API Center Standard, previously a separate paid offering, is now included at no additional cost for all Azure API Management Standard and Premium customers, when an API Center instance is linked with a corresponding Azure API Management service (for both
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Management, Pricing & Offerings

Build. Secure. Launch Your Private MCP Registry with Azure API Center.

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:25:00 Z

We are thrilled to embrace a new era in the world of MCP registries. As organizations increasingly build and consume MCP servers, the need for a secure, governed, robust and easily discoverable tools...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories:

New Free Tier in Azure API Center

Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:30 Z

Announcing Azure API Center is transitioning from a 90-day free trial period to offering a free tier. Azure API Center serves as a centralized hub to catalog, discover, and manage MCP servers and APIs, regardless of their type or deployment location withi
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Management, Pricing & Offerings

Expose REST APIs as MCP servers with Azure API Management and API Center (now in preview)

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:24:00 Z

As AI-powered agents and large language models (LLMs) become central to modern application experiences, developers and enterprises need seamless, secure ways to connect these models to real-world dat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Management

Azure API Center May Updates

Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:22 Z

We are excited to announce our May updates for Azure API Center. This public preview release includes several exciting new features designed to enhance user experience and streamline API management: Users can now configure and granularly assign ac
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Managed Developer Portal in Azure API Center (API Center Portal)

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:00:38 Z

Having a developer portal for your APIs is crucial as it provides a centralized location for all API documentation and resources, making it easier for developers to find the information they need. Additionally, it facilitates better collaboration among te
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Seamless Amazon API Gateway Integration for API Center

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:15:08 Z

We are excited to announce the release of an Amazon API Gateway integration for Azure API Center. This new feature allows customers to point to any Amazon API Gateway, and we will seamlessly import their APIs into API Center. This integration simplifies t
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Services

Synchronization between Azure API Center and Azure API Management

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re thrilled to announce the synchronization between Azure API Management and Azure API Center! This integration combines the robust governance of API Center with the powerful management capabilities of API Management, delivering a unified solution for
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Management

Fully Managed API Analysis in Azure API Center

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:00:35 Z

We’re excited to share that API Analysis in Azure API Center is now fully managed! With this release, you can enable API analysis effortlessly, with zero manual configuration or upkeep. Our API linting capabilities automatically examine your API definitio
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Thursday, December 12

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:30:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Management

Azure API Center Plugin for GitHub Copilot for Azure

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:00:53 Z

GitHub Copilot has rapidly become a favorite among developers, thanks to its conversational chat interface and seamless IDE integration. Recently, GitHub Copilot for Azure was introduced to streamline development on the Azure platform, making it an excell
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Copilot in Azure, Categories: Features, Services

Azure API Center Plugin for GitHub Copilot for Azure

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:56:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Copilot in Azure, Categories:

Public Preview: API Management & API Center Synchronization

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 Z

Managing APIs just got easier with Azure API Center’s new linking feature: seamless integration with an Azure API Management service. This ensures your API inventory stays automatically synced and updated.
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Platform API Catalog for Azure API Center

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:59:01 Z

Azure API Center enables tracking all of the APIs within an organization in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance. Enterprise developers across the organization need to get seamless access to consume the APIs in an Azure API Center. Not all enterprise developers in an organization have complete access to Azure API Center e.g., access to adding new APIs to the API Center. However, all enterprise developers need access to view API definitions, export API specification documents and generate API clients. Platform API Catalog enables enterprise developers across the organization to get seamless access to APIs using the Visual Studio Code extension for Azure API Center. It promotes API discovery, consumption and reuse across the enterprise. Using the platform API catalog, developers can discover APIs in the Azure API center, view API definitions, and optionally generate API clients when they don't have access to manage the API center itself or add APIs to the inventory. Access to the platform API catalog is managed using Microsoft Entra ID and Azure role-based access control. The platform API catalog helps enterprise developers discover API details and start API client development. Platform API Catalog enables developers to: Export API specification document - Export an API specification from a definition and then download it as a file Generate API client - Use the Microsoft Kiota extension to generate an API client for their favorite language Generate Markdown - Generate API documentation in Markdown format OpenAPI documentation - View the documentation for an API definition and try operations in a Swagger UI For more details visit: Enable platform API catalog - Azure API Center - VS Code extension - Azure API Center | Microsoft Learn
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Microsoft Entra ID, Categories:

Unlock the Future of API Compliance with AI and Azure API Center

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:30:00 Z

Discover how you can revolutionize your API compliance process using Azure API Center, Logic Apps, GitHub, and cutting-edge AI technology. Learn how our innovative approach analyzes your API design governance, generates insightful compliance reports, and seamlessly notifies developers with actionable feedback. Stay ahead of the curve and ensure your APIs meet the highest standards with our automated, AI-driven solution. Introduction API compliance is crucial for organizations to make sure that APIs designed and built follow the established rules, standards, and guidelines defined by the organization as well as industry best practices, which developers must adhere to while developing APIs. Further, it becomes time consuming to review APIs and identify design guidelines gaps manually, and integrating compliance with existing eco-system, which impacts developer productivity. This article shows how you can revolutionize and enhance your API compliance process using Azure API Center’s Analysis capabilities and Integration Services, and generate insightful compliance reports using Azure OpenAI, notifying developers with actionable feedback to ensure APIs adhere to organization’s API guidelines and industry best practices. The solution will achieve following objectives. Improved Developer Productivity: The use of AI-driven insights reduces the time developers spend manually reviewing APIs, allowing them to focus on critical tasks with real-time, actionable feedback on API design gaps. Automate API Compliance: By integrating Azure API Center with Azure OpenAI, the solution ensures that APIs comply with organizational design standards and best practices through automated analysis. Seamless Integration: The solution automates the workflow by integrating with GitHub and Azure services, streamlining the compliance review process and creating an efficient feedback loop for developers. Intelligent API Compliance Solution using Azure API Center and Azure OpenAI Azure API Cent
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, API Center, Categories: Compliance, Services

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Thursday, September 26

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:00:00 Z

We're thrilled to announce a community stand-up – a live-stream event for users of Azure API Management and API Center, hosted on YouTube. Join us for an engaging session where we'll delve into the latest industry trends, product updates, and best practices. Event Details Date: Thursday, 26 September 2024 Time: 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST Format: Live stream on YouTube What to Expect Insights into the API industry: Our product team will share their perspectives on the criticality of API security and securing APIs with an in-depth defense using Microsoft Defender for APIs. Azure API Management and API Center updates: Discover the latest features in our services, including workspaces, tiers v2, and more. Learn how these advancements can benefit your organization and enhance your API management practices. Interactive Q&A session: Do you have a burning question about our products or are you looking to provide feedback? This is your chance! Join our live Q&A session to get answers directly from our team. Networking opportunities: Connect with fellow API management practitioners in the chat, exchange ideas, and learn from each other's experiences. How to Join Simply tune into our live stream in the Microsoft Azure Developers channel on YouTube at the scheduled date and time. You can select the “Notify me” button to receive a reminder before the event starts. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to engage with our product team and fellow API Management and API Center users. Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Security, Services, Management

Public Preview – Managed linting support in API Center

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are announcing the public preview of managed linting support for API Analysis in API Center.Enable API analysis in Azure API Center effortlessly, without the need for manual management. Our API analysis provides robust linting capabilities to scrutiniz
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Services

Public Preview – Managed linting support in API Center

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce the public preview of managed linting support for API Analysis in Azure API Center. This feature offers robust linting capabilities to ensure your API definitions comply with organizational style rules, providing detailed reports and seamless integration for enhanced API quality.
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Center, Categories: Features, Services

Public Preview: Pre-release version - Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension now adding a pre-release version

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension is now adding a pre-release version allowing developers to get an early look at some of the upcoming features.
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Center, Categories: Features

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Thursday, July 25th

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:49:45 Z

We're thrilled to announce a community stand-up – a live-stream event for users of Azure API Management and API Center, hosted on YouTube. Join us for an engaging session where we'll delve into the latest industry trends, product updates, and best practices. Event Details Date: Thursday, 25 July 2024 Time: 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST Format: Live stream on YouTube What to Expect Insights into the API industry: Our product team will share their perspectives on the criticality of API security and securing APIs with an in-depth defense. Azure API Management and API Center updates: Discover the latest features in our services, including policies for managing consumption of OpenAI APIs and updates to the developer portal, workspaces, and API Center. Learn how these advancements can benefit your organization and enhance your API management practices. Interactive Q&A session: Do you have a burning question about our products or are you looking to provide feedback? This is your chance! Join our live Q&A session to get answers directly from our team. Networking opportunities: Connect with fellow API management practitioners in the chat, exchange ideas, and learn from each other's experiences. How to Join Simply tune into our live stream in the Microsoft Azure Developers channel on YouTube at the scheduled date and time. You can select the “Notify me” button to receive a reminder before the event starts. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to engage with our product team and fellow API Management and API Center users. Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, API Center, Categories: Features, Security, Services, Management

The Rising Significance of APIs - Azure API Management & API Center

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:30:00 Z

As we venture deeper into the digital era, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the cornerstone of modern software development and digital communication. APIs continue to be pivotal, acting as the conduits through which different systems, applications, and devices interact and exchange data. This growing reliance on APIs is reflected in the investment trends, with a significant 92% of global respondents indicating that investments in APIs will either remain steady or increase over the next year (2023 State of the API Report, Postman, 2023). Recognizing the critical role that APIs play in modern software architecture, Microsoft has been consistently investing in and expanding its API suite to fulfill diverse needs. Managing APIs is not a one-size-fits-all solution with different API ecosystems requiring different API management approaches and tools. Azure API Center, a new API Azure service, was recently announced General Availability (GA). Azure API Center is engineered to function independently, yet it seamlessly integrates with Azure API Management, providing customers options to manage various aspects of their API ecosystem. In the following sections, we will dive into the specifics of Azure API Management and Azure API Center, highlighting their differences, use cases, and guiding you on when to use each product to best manage and leverage your API ecosystem. Azure API Management: Your Gateway to Digital Transformation Azure API Management (APIM) is a managed cloud service designed to streamline and secure the use of APIs. API Management acts as a secure front door to facilitate, manage, and analyze the interactions between an organization’s APIs and their users with some of their core functionalities listed below: API gateway - operational management: API Management acts as a gateway, managing API exposure, security, and analytics during runtime. Traffic routing: Acts as a facade to
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Security, Services, Management

Announcing: General Availability of Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:53:28 Z

About Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code enables developers to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your API center: Build APIs - Make APIs you're building discoverable to others by registering them in your API center. Shift-left API design conformance checks into Visual Studio Code with integrated linting support. Ensure that new API versions don't break API consumers with breaking change detection. Discover APIs - Browse the APIs in your API center, and view their details and documentation. Try APIs - Use Swagger UI or REST client to explore API requests and responses. Consume APIs - Generate API SDK clients for your favorite language including JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, Python, and Java, using the Microsoft Kiota engine that generates SDKs for Microsoft Graph, GitHub, and more. Register APIs Register an API in your API center directly from Visual Studio Code, either by registering it as a one-time operation or with a CI/CD pipeline. API design conformance To ensure design conformance with organizational standards as you build APIs, the Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code provides integrated support for API specification linting with Spectral. Breaking change detection When introducing new versions of your API, it's important to ensure that changes introduced do not break API consumers on previous versions of your API. The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code makes this easy with breaking change detection for OpenAPI specification documents powered by Optic. Discover APIs Your API center resources appear in the tree view on the left-hand side. Expand an API center resource to see APIs, versions, definitions, environments, and deployments. View API documentation You can view the documentation for an API definition in your API center and try API operations. This feature is only available for OpenAPI-based APIs
Update Type: GA, Services: API Center, Categories:

Universal API Center - a truly comprehensive API catalog that warmly welcomes all your APIs!

Fri, 31 May 2024 23:55:27 Z

Silent yet powerful, APIs are the unsung heroes of our digital era! Welcome! Your presence here, fully engaged in this article, indicates an insightful understanding of the immense importance and catalytic role that APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, play in shaping our technology-driven lives today! Findings show that businesses across sectors have been amassing APIs year after year, a trend that has sharply escalated in recent months due to groundbreaking advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Have you ever counted the number of APIs used within your organization? Moreover, do you know how many of these APIs are efficiently governed, securely managed, and observed to verify their compliance with service-level objectives? Quite probably, you don't - simply because managing these governance tasks isn't easy and often doesn't take the top priority. Various factors contribute to the challenges of managing the API landscape: A key factor is the deployment of APIs across a vast selection of hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This encompasses SaaS applications, no code/low code platforms, cloud platforms utilizing containers and microservices, as well as legacy systems. Each of these environments possesses distinctive attributes that affect the API lifecycle and its effective governance. Another consideration is the diverse spectrum of API protocols, specifications, and architectural styles available. At present, REST APIs, primarily using the OpenAPI specification for newer APIs, enjoy the highest popularity. Nonetheless, it's crucial to note that the API landscape incorporates other protocols and specifications including but not limited to AsyncAPI, GraphQL, SOAP, WebSockets and more. Additionally, the enterprise scene features a diverse array of API Gateways and API management solutions. Numerous vendors offer a wide spectrum of services, extending from distinct API gateway functionality to
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Center, Categories: Features, Compliance, Services, Management

General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. You can use this extension to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your API center.
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Management

General Availability - Azure API Center

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, API Center, Categories: Features, Management

Azure API Center Updates

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

We are pleased to announce an update to the Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code, introducing new capabilities for API inventory and design. Additionally, we are unveiling a new API governance feature in API Center, enabling API linting and analysis based on customer-owned design guidelines.
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Center, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Azure API Center – January Updates

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure API Center is your one-stop solution for inventorying and managing your organization’s APIs. In this update, we are bringing you new features and improvements to help you discover, reuse, and consume your APIs more easily and efficiently. These features are designed to help you streamline your API lifecycle, improve your developer experience, and increase your API adoption.
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Center, Categories: Features

Ungated Public Preview: Azure API Center

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

We're thrilled to share that Azure API Center is now open for everyone to try during our ungated public preview!
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Center, Categories: Features