I was working on implementing git version controlling for apim policies. I was working in the azure portal tools. I have installed Azure API Management extension for VS Code. I was able to sync it with Azure portal policies, but I accidentally deleted the APIs from the VS Code but all APIs in Azure portal got automatically deleted, is it possible to recover those APIs in the azure portal?
I am a beginner.
It is possible to recover the deleted API's using API soft-delete feature in Azure.
With API Management soft-delete, you can recover and restore a recently deleted API Management instance. This feature protects against accidental deletion of your API Management instance.
To recover it, you can use the REST API call as shown:
Method: PUT
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<subscriptionId>/resourceGroups/<resourceGroup>/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/<APIMService>?api-version=2021-08-01
When an API Management instance is soft-deleted, the service exists in a deleted state and is inaccessible to normal API Management actions.
You can use the API Management Get By Name operation to check whether a soft-deleted API Management instance is still available for restoration. If the APIM instance is available for undeleting, Azure will return a record with the deletion Date and scheduledPurgeDate.
You can also backup the API management instance while creating, with the help of Backup-AzApiManagemen PowerShell command as detailed in MSDoc.
