As
organizations build more agentic applications, agent-to-agent communication is
becoming a critical part of enterprise AI systems. But in many environments,
agent traffic operates outside existing API governance layers —
making it difficult to apply consistent security, visibility, and operational
controls.
With
support for JSON-RPC–based A2A APIs, Azure API Management enables platform
teams and developers to manage agent interactions alongside REST, GraphQL,
MCP tools, and AI model APIs using the same API management platform they
already rely on. This allows organizations to apply existing security,
mediation, and governance policies to agent traffic, observe and
trace agent interactions end-to-end, and manage agent APIs within a unified
operational model instead of introducing separate gateways or disconnected
tooling for agents.
By
bringing A2A APIs into the same governance and observability framework as the
broader API ecosystem, Azure API Management helps organizations scale agentic
systems with enterprise-grade security, control, and operational
consistency.
Learn more.