API Management monitoring data reference

APPLIES TO: All API Management tiers

This article contains all the monitoring reference information for this service.

See Monitor API Management for details on the data you can collect for Azure API Management and how to use it.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics for this service. These metrics are also part of the global list of all platform metrics supported in Azure Monitor.

For information on metric retention, see Azure Monitor Metrics overview.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.ApiManagement/service

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.ApiManagement/service resource type.

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Table headings

  • Category - The metrics group or classification.
  • Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
  • Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
  • Unit - Unit of measure.
  • Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
  • Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
  • Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
  • DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.
Category Metric Name in REST API Unit Aggregation Dimensions Time Grains DS Export
Gateway Requests Duration of Backend Requests

Duration of Backend Requests in milliseconds
BackendDuration MilliSeconds Average, Maximum, Minimum Location, Hostname, ApiId PT1M Yes
Capacity Capacity

Utilization metric for ApiManagement service. Note: For skus other than Premium, 'Max' aggregation will show the value as 0.
Capacity Percent Average, Maximum Location PT1M Yes
Gateway WebSocket WebSocket Connection Attempts (Preview)

Count of WebSocket connection attempts based on selected source and destination
ConnectionAttempts Count Total (Sum), Average Location, Source, Destination, State PT1M Yes
Capacity CPU Percentage of Gateway

CPU Percentage of Gateway for SKUv2 services
CpuPercent_Gateway Percent Average, Maximum <none> PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Overall Duration of Gateway Requests

Overall Duration of Gateway Requests in milliseconds
Duration MilliSeconds Average, Maximum, Minimum Location, Hostname, ApiId PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Dropped EventHub Events

Number of events skipped because of queue size limit reached
EventHubDroppedEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Rejected EventHub Events

Number of rejected EventHub events (wrong configuration or unauthorized)
EventHubRejectedEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Successful EventHub Events

Number of successful EventHub events
EventHubSuccessfulEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Throttled EventHub Events

Number of throttled EventHub events
EventHubThrottledEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Timed Out EventHub Events

Number of timed out EventHub events
EventHubTimedoutEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Size of EventHub Events

Total size of EventHub events in bytes
EventHubTotalBytesSent Bytes Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Total EventHub Events

Number of events sent to EventHub
EventHubTotalEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
EventHub Events Failed EventHub Events

Number of failed EventHub events
EventHubTotalFailedEvents Count Total (Sum) Location PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Failed Gateway Requests (Deprecated)

Number of failures in gateway requests - Use multi-dimension request metric with GatewayResponseCodeCategory dimension instead
FailedRequests Count Total (Sum) Location, Hostname PT1M Yes
Capacity Memory Percentage of Gateway

Memory Percentage of Gateway for SKUv2 services
MemoryPercent_Gateway Percent Average, Maximum <none> PT1M Yes
Network Status Network Connectivity Status of Resources (Preview)

Network Connectivity status of dependent resource types from API Management service
NetworkConnectivity Count Total (Sum), Average Location, ResourceType PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Other Gateway Requests (Deprecated)

Number of other gateway requests - Use multi-dimension request metric with GatewayResponseCodeCategory dimension instead
OtherRequests Count Total (Sum) Location, Hostname PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Requests

Gateway request metrics with multiple dimensions
Requests Count Total (Sum), Maximum, Minimum Location, Hostname, LastErrorReason, BackendResponseCode, GatewayResponseCode, BackendResponseCodeCategory, GatewayResponseCodeCategory, ApiId PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Successful Gateway Requests (Deprecated)

Number of successful gateway requests - Use multi-dimension request metric with GatewayResponseCodeCategory dimension instead
SuccessfulRequests Count Total (Sum) Location, Hostname PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Total Gateway Requests (Deprecated)

Number of gateway requests - Use multi-dimension request metric with GatewayResponseCodeCategory dimension instead
TotalRequests Count Total (Sum) Location, Hostname PT1M Yes
Gateway Requests Unauthorized Gateway Requests (Deprecated)

Number of unauthorized gateway requests - Use multi-dimension request metric with GatewayResponseCodeCategory dimension instead
UnauthorizedRequests Count Total (Sum) Location, Hostname PT1M Yes
Gateway WebSocket WebSocket Messages (Preview)

Count of WebSocket messages based on selected source and destination
WebSocketMessages Count Total (Sum), Average Location, Source, Destination PT1M Yes

Metric dimensions

For information about what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

This service has the following dimensions associated with its metrics.

  • ApiId
  • BackendResponseCode
  • BackendResponseCodeCategory
  • Destination
  • GatewayResponseCode
  • GatewayResponseCodeCategory
  • Hostname
  • LastErrorReason
  • Location
  • ResourceType
  • Source
  • State

Resource logs

This section lists the types of resource logs you can collect for this service. The section pulls from the list of all resource logs category types supported in Azure Monitor.

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.ApiManagement/service

Category Category display name Log table Supports basic log plan Supports ingestion-time transformation Example queries Costs to export
DeveloperPortalAuditLogs Logs related to Developer Portal usage APIMDevPortalAuditDiagnosticLog

Diagnostic Logs for API Management Developer Portal API.

Yes No Yes
GatewayLlmLogs Logs related to generative AI gateway No No Yes
GatewayLogs Logs related to ApiManagement Gateway ApiManagementGatewayLogs

Azure ApiManagement gateway logs.

Yes Yes Queries No
WebSocketConnectionLogs Logs related to Websocket Connections ApiManagementWebSocketConnectionLogs

Websocket connection logs provides logs on websocket connection events for API Management Gateway. Logging starts when the request arrives to API Management Gateway for handshake and till the request gets terminated. Every request log can be uniquely identified with CorrelationId.

Yes No Yes

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/workspaces

Category Category display name Log table Supports basic log plan Supports ingestion-time transformation Example queries Costs to export
GatewayLogs Gateway logs for API Management workspaces No No Yes

Azure Monitor Logs tables

This section lists the Azure Monitor Logs tables relevant to this service, which are available for query by Log Analytics using Kusto queries. The tables contain resource log data and possibly more depending on what is collected and routed to them.

API Management Microsoft.ApiManagement/service

Activity log

The linked table lists the operations that can be recorded in the activity log for this service. These operations are a subset of all the possible resource provider operations in the activity log.

For more information on the schema of activity log entries, see Activity Log schema.