Azure Event Hubs

Connector Details

Connector AttributesDetails
NameAzure Event Hubs
DescriptionAzure Event Hubs is a fully managed event streaming platform and event ingestion service provided by Microsoft Azure, designed to handle and process large-scale event streams from various sources. It offers reliable and scalable event ingestion, real-time processing, and analytics capabilities, making it ideal for building event-driven architectures and processing telemetry data, logs, and IoT device data. With features like partitioning, checkpoints, and auto-scaling, Azure Event Hubs ensures high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance, even under heavy loads. Additionally, it integrates seamlessly with other Azure services such as Azure Functions, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Databricks, enabling developers to build end-to-end event-driven solutions with ease. Whether for real-time analytics, data processing, or monitoring applications, Azure Event Hubs provides a flexible and scalable platform to handle diverse event streaming workloads efficiently.
Connector TypeClass B

Features

Feature NameFeature Details
Load StrategiesFull Load, Incremental Load
Metadata ExtractionSupported
Data AcquisitionSupported
Data PublishingNot Supported
Automated Schema Drift HandlingNot Supported

Source Connection Attributes

Connection ParametersData TypeExample
Display NameStringMyEventHub
NamespaceStringmyeventhubnamespace
Key NameStringmykeyname
KeyString
Consumer GroupStringmyconsumergroup
Hub Instance NameStringmyhubinstancename
Bronze Schema (Optional)String
Silver Schema (Optional)String

Connector Specific Configuration Details

  1. Azure Event Hubs connector has optional values such as Bronze Schema and Silver Schema
  2. The connector is expecting a JSON string with the following elements:
    • Namespace: The Event Hubs namespace
    • key Name: The name of the shared access key
    • key: The shared access key that was generated
    • Consumer Group: Usually $Default, but contains any specific user group set up in the Event Hubs Instance
    • Hub: The name of the Event Hubs Instance

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