Managing APIs effectively requires robust security, governance, and deep operational visibility. With federated logging now available in Azure API Management, platform teams and API developers can monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize APIs more efficiently and without compromising security or collaboration.

What is federated logging?

As API ecosystems grow, maintaining centralized visibility while providing teams with the autonomy to manage and troubleshoot their APIs becomes a challenge.

Federated logging centralizes insights for platform teams while empowering API teams with focused access to logs specific to their APIs, streamlining monitoring in large-scale API ecosystems.

• Centralized Monitoring for Platform Teams: Complete visibility into API health, performance, and usage trends across the organization.


• Autonomy for API Teams: Direct access to their own API logs, reducing reliance on platform teams and speeding up resolution times.

Key Benefits

Federated logging offers advantages for both platform and API teams, addressing their unique challenges and needs.

For platform teams:

• Centralized Monitoring: Gain platform-wide visibility into API health, performance, and usage trends.


• Streamlined Troubleshooting: Quickly diagnose and resolve platform issues without dependency on individual API teams.


• Governance and Security: Ensure robust audit trails and compliance, supporting secure and scalable API management.

For API teams:

• Faster Incident Resolution: Accelerate incident resolution thanks to immediate access to relevant logs, without waiting for the central platform team’s response.


• Actionable Insights: Track API growth, trends, and key performance metrics specific to your APIs to support reporting, planning, and strategic decision-making.


• Access Control: Limit access to logs to your API team only.

How Federated Logging Works

Federated logging is enabled using Azure Log Analytics and workspaces in Azure API Management:

• Platform teams configure logging to a centralized Log Analytics workspace for the entire API Management service, including individual workspaces.


• Platform teams can access centralized logs through the “Logs” page in the API Management service in the Azure portal or directly in the Log Analytics workspace.


• API teams can access logs for their workspace APIs through the “Logs” page in their API Management workspace in the Azure portal. Access control is enforced via Azure Log Analytics’ resource context mechanism, ensuring role-based log visibility.

Get Started Today

Federated logging in Azure API Management combines centralized monitoring and team autonomy, enabling efficient and effective operations.

Start using federated logging by visiting the Azure API Management documentation.