How to completely disable caching in Azure API Management?

Question

I want to completely disable caching for a specific API in Azure API Management. Is it sufficient to remove all cache-related policies, or are there any default caching behaviors that might still apply? If so, how can I ensure that no caching occurs at any level?

Answer 1

Hi @Wessel Vonk ,

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To disable caching in Azure API Management, simply remove all cache-related policies (like <cache-lookup> and <cache-store>) from your API. If you don’t have any caching policies set up, there are no default caching behaviors that will apply. To make sure caching is completely turned off:

• Remove all cache-related policies from both the inbound and outbound sections.
• Check that your backend service isn’t sending any Cache-Control or similar headers that could allow caching downstream.

Doing this will ensure that there’s no caching at any level in Azure API Management.

For your reference, please review the following documentations for further clarification:

• Add caching to improve performance in Azure API Management
• Custom caching in Azure API Management

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