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# Synchronize APIs from an API Management instance
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This article shows how to create a link (preview) to an API Management instance so that the instances's APIs are synchronized in your [API center](overview.md).APIs in a linked API Management instance are continuously kept up to date in your API center inventory.
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This article shows how to create a link (preview) to an API Management instance so that the instances's APIs are synchronized in your [API center](overview.md).APIs in a linked API Management instance are continuously kept up to date in your API center inventory.
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## About linking API Management
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## About linking an API Management instance
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Although you can use the Azure CLI to [import](import-api-management-apis.md) APIs on demand from Azure API Management to Azure API Center, linking an API Management instance enables continuous synchronization so that the API inventory stays up to date.
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When you link an API Management instance, the following happens:
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* All APIs, and optionally API definitions, from the API Management instance are added to the API center inventory.
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* You configure an [environment](key-concepts.md#environment) of type *Azure API Management* in the API center. An associated [deployment](key-concepts.md#deployment) is created for each synchronized API definition from API Management.
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* You configure an [environment](key-concepts.md#environment) of type *Azure API Management* in the API center.
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* An associated [deployment](key-concepts.md#deployment) is created for each synchronized API definition from API Management.
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API Management APIs automatically synchronize to the API center whenever existing APIs' settings change, new versions are added, new APIs are created, or APIs are deleted. This synchronization is one-way from API Management to your Azure API center, meaning API updates in the API center aren't synchronized back to the API Management instance.
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> [!NOTE]
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> * API updates in API Management can take a few minutes to synchronize to your API center.
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> * There are [limits](../azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits.md?toc=/azure/api-center/toc.json&bc=/azure/api-center/breadcrumb/toc.json#api-center-limits) for the number of linked API Management instances.
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### Entities synchronized from API Management
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You can add or update metadata properties and documentation in your API center to help stakeholders discover, understand, and consume the synchronized APIs. Learn more about Azure API Center's [built-in and custom metadata properties](add-metadata-properties.md).
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The following table shows entity properties that can be modified in Azure API Center and those that are determined based on their values in a linked Azure API Management instance. Also, entities' resource or system identifiers in Azure API Center are generated automatically and can't be modified.
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The following table shows entity properties that can be modified in Azure API Center and properties that are determined based on their values in a linked Azure API Management instance. Also, entities' resource or system identifiers in Azure API Center are generated automatically and can't be modified.
> Azure CLI command examples in this article can run in PowerShell or a bash shell. Where needed because of different variable syntax, separate command examples are provided for the two shells.
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