Azure APIM is essential feature in building AI applications. Being part of that it is important to protect your APIs and couple years ago Azure has provided such capability in Defender for Cloud called Defender for APIs. Previously I have demonstrated how to configure Defender for Cloud plans in Enable Defender for Cloud Auto provisioning agents via Bicep. For Defender for APIs plan it is the same resource type Microsoft.Security/pricings but the name of the resource is ‘Api’. Additionally, you will set pricingTier to Standard to enable it and subPlan to P1, P2, P3, P4 or P5. As this is the initial configuration only in this blog post we will look at what to do next.
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Azure Monitor Alert Types Dev.bg Presentation and Examples
On the 2nd of July I have presented Azure Monitor Alert Types session at dev.bg. As this was event in Bulgarian and I have publish the examples online you can check them at GitHub repository even if you haven’t attended.
Master IaC with Azure Bicep at Global Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2025
On the 10th of May I have presented Master IaC with Azure Bicep session at Global Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2025. As this was local event and I have publish the examples online you can check them at GitHub repository even if you haven’t attended.
Monitoring canceled Azure Subscriptions
Azure Subscription cannot be just deleted. They go trough different states. Although you might have taken all necessary to secure your Azure tenant sometimes mistakes happen or your environment might be compromised by bad actors. The first step of removing Azure Subscription is to cancel it. That is critical action that you may want to monitor although you should have in place other ways to monitor resources that will signal that they are not available. In any case additional alert that this action was done could be useful information to be alerted upon. In this blog posts we will take a look how we can do that by using Azure Monitor. The deployment of the Azure Monitor resource will be done via Azure Bicep.
Enable Defender for Cloud Auto provisioning agents via Bicep
Often I see questions around how I can the auto provisioning agents capabilities (now renamed to Settings & monitoring) in Defender for Cloud via API.




