Azure API Management installs statistics
By Microsoft (224 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Azure
An Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code.
Azure API Management has 264,792 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #1255 of 2,501 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.23 / 5 from 13 ratings
About Azure API Management
Azure API Management Extension for Visual Studio Code
Use the Azure API Management extension to perform common management operations on your Azure API Management service instances without switching away from Visual Studio Code.
Azure API Management is a fully managed service that helps customers to securely expose their APIs to external and internal consumers. API Management serves as a facade and a front door for the API implementations and enables their frictionless consumption by developers. Visit this page for more information and resources related to Azure API Management.
Requirements
All you need is an Azure Subscription to get started. If you don't have one, click here for a free subscription with $200 in Azure credits!
Main Features
- Create and delete an API Management instance
- Create an API by importing an OpenAPI specification
- Edit APIs and operations in Azure Resource Manager or OpenAPI formats
- Edit policies at any scope
- Associate an API with a product
- Create, delete, and edit Named Values
- Test an API using REST Client
- Command Palette support for most features
- Import Azure Functions - Transform HttpTriggers into APIs
- Import App Service WebApp
- Manage Self-Hosted Gateways
- Policy Debugging
- Show diffs against last saved version
- Switch / Release API Revisions
- API Filter
- Policy Debugging on Self-Hosted Gateways
- Manage User Subscriptions
- Manage Authorization Providers, Authorizations and Access Policies
Create an API Management instance using defaults

Create an API Management instance using custom options

Create an API by importing an OpenAPI specification
Please note: only JSON format is supported currently.

Edit an API in Azure Resource Manager format

Edit an API in OpenAPI format

Edit policies

Test an API

Create and edit a Named Value

Import Function App

Import App Service Web App

Deploy Gateway with Docker or Kubernetes

Debug Policy

Show diffs against last saved version

Switch API Revision

Release API Revision

API Filter

Self-Hosted Gateway Debugging

Manage User Subscriptions

Intellisense for Policy Expressions.
Follow instructions here.
Managing Azure Subscriptions
If you are not signed in to Azure, a 'Sign in to Azure...' link will appear.
If you don't have an Azure Account, you can sign up for one today for free and receive $200 in credits by selecting "Create a Free Azure Account...", or select "Create an Azure for Students Account...".
To sign out of Azure in VSCode, go to the account page, select your Azure account, and click 'Sign Out'.
To switch tenants in VSCode, go to "View" -> "Command Palette" and search for "Azure API Management: Select Tenant...".
To choose which subscriptions appear in the extension's explorer, click the "Select Subscriptions..." button on any subscription node (indicated by a filter icon when you hover over it), or go to "View" -> "Command Palette" and search for "Azure API Management: Select Subscriptions".
Contributing
There are several ways you can contribute to this repo:…
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- API Management
- APIM
- apim-policy
- Azure
- debuggers
- json
- language-model-tools
- OpenAPI
- policy
- snippet
- swagger
- tools
- xml
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-azuretools.vscode-apimanagement. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.