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Stream data in near real time from SQL MI to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:54:00 Z

How do I modernize an existing application without rewriting it? Many business-critical applications still rely on architectures where the database is the most dependable integration point. These a...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

"Send data to Event Hubs & Storage (Preview)" retiring July 31, 2026

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:30:02 Z

On July 31, 2026, we'll retire preview feature “Send virtual machine client data to Event Hubs and Storage (Preview)” and it will no longer be supported by Microsoft. You will not be able to create any new data collection rules using this feature, and any
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Monitor, Event Hubs, Categories: Management

Stream data in near real time from SQL to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:27:00 Z

If near-real time integration is something you are looking to implement and you were looking for a simpler way to get the data out of SQL, keep reading. SQL is making it easier to integrate and Chang...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Beyond Basics: Tracking Kafka Lag in Azure Event Hubs

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:37:00 Z

Go beyond the basics of Kafka lag monitoring in Azure Event Hubs. Learn advanced strategies to track consumer lag across all states, handle inactive groups, implement external offset storage, and app...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Geo-Replication for Azure Event Hubs Premium and Dedicated

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:15:19 Z

The Geo-Replication feature for Azure Event Hubs in the premium and dedicated tier is now generally available. The Event Hubs Geo-Replication feature is one of the options to insulate Azure Event Hubs client applications against outages and disasters, pro
Update Type: GA, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Features

SDK type bindings in Azure Functions for Azure Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Event Hubs

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:33 Z

Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. This feature enables you to use types from service SDKs and frameworks, providing more capability beyond what is currently offered.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Service Bus, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Services, SDK and Tools

Announcing AMQP v2 stack engine support in the Azure Messaging Event Hubs library for Java

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:21:17 Z

This blog post announces a new stable release of the Azure Event Hubs library for Java, with enhanced reliability and performance. The post Announcing AMQP v2 stack engine support in the Azure Messaging Event Hubs library for Java appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Implementing Event Hub Logging for Azure OpenAI Streaming APIs

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:13:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Event Hubs, Categories:

Data Ingestion for Azure Event Hubs: Quick Guide

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:55:00 Z

Data Ingestion for Azure Event Hubs: Quick Guide
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Public Preview: Azure Event Hubs offers new portal capabilities, and 100% Kafka compatibility

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 Z

New portal experience simplifies testing and debugging. Kafka compatibility enables seamless integration with Apache Kafka workloads.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Features

Announcing the Event Hubs Data Explorer: a handy tool for getting started and debugging

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:18:40 Z

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Event Hubs Data Explorer feature in the Azure portal! This user-friendly yet highly powerful tool allows developers to generate and retrieve event data from an Event Hubs topic, all within the ease of the Azure portal. Seamless Onboarding The Data Explorer is a vital tool for new Event Hubs developers, offering an all-encompassing view of event data for quick onboarding. It lets you test event producers and consumers easily, ensuring your systems are correctly configured. Developers have the option to either create custom workloads or utilize predefined datasets to produce mock data for streamlined testing. Whether you're experimenting with new data flows or validating your setup, the Data Explorer makes the process straightforward. Enhanced Debugging If you're using Event Hubs, the Data Explorer is invaluable for debugging and improving your solutions. It allows you to inspect data at specific timestamps or offsets, helping developers quickly find and fix anomalies. This tool is great for identifying issues and optimizing event processing workflows to keep your systems running smoothly. Your Gateway to Advanced Event Data Insights The Event Hubs Data Explorer is designed to make your experience with Event Hubs more intuitive and productive. By providing a unified interface for producing and consuming event data, it empowers you to gain deeper insights and maintain control over your event-driven architectures. We are confident that this new feature will enhance your ability to work with Event Hubs, whether you are just getting started or optimizing existing deployments. For a detailed guide on using the Event Hubs Data Explorer, please refer to our comprehensive how-to documentation. We are excited to see how you leverage the Event Hubs Data Explorer to drive innovation and efficiency in your projects. As always, we welcome your feedback and look forward to continuously improving our tools to better serve y
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Data Explorer, Categories:

100% Kafka parity on Event Hubs: Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions now in Public Preview

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:54:20 Z

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions functionality in Azure Event Hubs in the Premium and Dedicated tier. With this, Event Hubs has now achieved 100% Kafka compatibility until Apache Kafka version 3.0 to further tap into the Apache Kafka ecosystem and empower customers who want to leverage the Apache Kafka APIs on Azure Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service. Kafka Streams is a client library for building applications and microservices that process data in real-time from multiple Kafka topics. Kafka Transactions enable you to produce and consume messages atomically across multiple partitions and topics in a Kafka cluster. With these be supported in Azure Event Hubs, it can act as a drop-in replacement to bring your Apache Kafka workloads to the cloud, with very simple configuration changes, as indicated in this migration guide. Learn more We invite you to try out the Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions functionality in Azure Event Hubs in the Premium and Dedicated tier and share your feedback with us. Learn more about these features in the documentation listed below: Apache Kafka Streams for Azure Event Hubs Transactions in Apache Kafka for Azure Event Hubs You can also check out the following resources to learn more about Azure Event Hubs and Kafka integration: Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka Migrate to Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learn
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Services

Announcing public preview for Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:53:27 Z

Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, cloud-native, real-time data streaming service that enables you to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and immediately respond to business challenges. It sits at the center of all the operational and analytical workflows for Azure’s customers – whether they are large enterprises or scrappy startups, enabling them to leverage their streaming data to enable new workflows, all in real time. Data availability and service reliability are core tenets of a cloud-native service and today we are excited to announce the public preview of geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs to complete our story. Geo-replication builds on and fortifies our data availability and geo-disaster recovery story, by allowing you to replicate your Event Hubs data payloads across different Azure regions. With geo-replication, client applications still talk to the primary copy of the namespace, but customers can specify a secondary region, replication consistency (synchronous or asynchronous) and replication lag for the data, and the service takes care of replicating the data between primary and secondary regions. When customers need to change the primary (for planned maintenance or forced failover), they can promote the secondary copy to be the primary and all client requests are then serviced by the new primary, without changing any configuration (connection strings, authentication, etc.) on the client application. The previous primary then becomes demoted to a secondary region, ensuring that both primary and secondary copies are in sync. Geo-replication is designed to provide you with the following benefits: High availability: You can ensure that your data is always accessible and durable, even in the event of a regional outage or disruption. You can also reduce the impact of planned maintenance events by switching to the secondary region before the primary region undergoes any updates or changes. Disaster recov
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Services, Regions & Datacenters

Announcing Large Message Support for Azure Event Hubs- Public Preview

Tue, 21 May 2024 21:11:58 Z

We are pleased to announce the public preview of large message support (up to 20 MB) in Azure Event Hubs. Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native data streaming service that can stream millions of events per second, with low latency, from any source to any destination. Event Hubs is compatible with Apache Kafka, and it enables you to run existing Kafka workloads without any code changes. The introduction of large message support is a significant enhancement to our service. Typically, data in streaming scenarios is lightweight, often less than 1 MB, and characterized by high throughput. However, there are instances when messages cannot be divided into smaller segments or chunks. With the new support for large messages, Event Hubs self-serve scalable Dedicated clusters can now accommodate events up to 20 MB in size at no additional cost. This capability allows Azure Event Hubs to handle a wide range of message sizes, ensuring uninterrupted business operations. How to enable large message support for Event Hubs Large message streaming is only supported in Event Hubs self-serve scalable dedicated clusters built out of latest infrastructure. For more details, visit aka.ms/largemessagesupportforeh Being able to stream large messages or events requires no client code changes apart from the change in message or event itself. You could continue sending/receiving messages using any existing event hubs SDK / Kafka API to stream large messages to event hub. We’re all ears for your feedback. To Know more, visit: Azure Event Hubs Overview Apache Ka fka on Azure Event Hubs Thank you for your continued support. Happy Streaming!
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Introducing Local Emulator for Azure Event Hubs

Tue, 21 May 2024 17:23:34 Z

Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native data streaming service that can stream millions of events per second, with low latency, from any source to any destination. Event Hubs is compatible with Apache Kafka, and it enables you to run existing Kafka workloads without any code changes. Recognizing the critical need for local development support for Azure Event Hubs, we’re thrilled to roll out the preview release of the local emulator for Azure Event Hubs. Azure Event Hubs emulator is designed to offer a local development experience for Azure Event Hubs, enabling you to develop and test code against our services in isolation, free from cloud interference. Get started with Azure Event Hubs emulator The emulator is available as a Docker image on Microsoft Container Registry and is platform-agnostic – it can run on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can either use our automated scripts from the Installer repository or spin up the emulator container using the docker compose command. The emulator is compatible with the latest Event Hubs SDKs and supports basic send and receive operations with Azure Event Hubs via AMQP. For more details, please visit aka.ms/eventhubsemulator We value your feedback and look forward to hearing from you. Your insights will help us enhance the emulator, making it an even more beneficial resource for the Event Hubs community.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Registry, Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Announcing general availability for Kafka compression in Azure Event Hubs

Tue, 21 May 2024 17:16:01 Z

Today, we're excited to announce that compression for Kafka clients is generally available in Azure Event Hubs. Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native streaming service enabling you to build scalable, durable and low-latency workflows with massive volumes of event data with ease. As you onboard more workloads to Azure and build them around Azure Event Hubs, your bandwidth and storage requirements may scale exponentially. Kafka compression can help with this by reducing the data payloads that are stored and transmitted across your architecture, thus reducing network bandwidth and storage requirements and costs, while still keeping the programming model simple. To utilize Kafka compression, you must set the below setting in the Kafka producer configuration properties - compression.type = gzip No changes are required on the Kafka consumer side, since the compression information is made available in the message header and the consumer can automagically uncompress these and make it available for processing. Learn more To learn more about Kafka compression in Azure Event Hubs, please refer to the documentation.
Update Type: GA, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Management

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Azure Event Hubs.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Chaos Studio, Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Services

Azure Stream Analytics No-code Editor: new features and improvements in Jan 2024

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Enhancements and new features have been introduced to the Stream Analytics no-code editor, accessible through both the Azure Event Hubs portal and the Azure Stream Analytics portal. These updates aim to deliver a more intuitive and user-friendly experience for users.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Stream Analytics, Event Hubs, Categories: Features

Kafka Compression on Azure Event Hubs Public Preview

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:00:00 Z

Kafka compression Microsoft is happy to announce the public preview of Kafka Compression for Apache Kafka on Azure Event Hubs. Kafka Compression enables message producers to transmit compressed data which is decompressed by the consumer. By compressing your payload, you are able to save a lot of bandwidth and reduce the memory overhead on the brokers supporting your traffic. Kafka producer application developers can enable message compression by setting the compression.type property. Compression.type = none | gzip These changes are exposed in the header which then allows the consumer to properly decompress the data. The feature is currently only supported for Apache Kafka traffic and not AMQP or web service. There is more information on this feature in documentation at https://aka.ms/kafkacompression
Update Type: Preview, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 Z

Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Service Bus, Event Hubs, Categories: Retirements

Generally available: Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Starting with version 6.0.0 of the Azure Functions Event Hubs extension, a higher default value of 100 will be used for max batch size
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Event Hubs, Categories: Features

Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Live Video Analytics (LVA) provides a platform for you to build hybrid applications with video analytics capabilities. LVA offers the capability of capturing, recording, and analyzing live video and publishing the results to Azure services in the cloud and/or the edge.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Media Services, Event Hubs, Categories: Services

Announcing self-serve experience for Azure Event Hubs Clusters

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0700

For businesses today, data is indispensable. Innovative ideas in manufacturing, health care, transportation, and financial industries are often the result of capturing and correlating data from multiple sources.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available. It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories:

Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0800

The Azure Messaging team is continually working to enhance the resiliency and availability of our service offerings – Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Event Grid.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Grid, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Categories:

Virtual Network Service Endpoints for serverless messaging and big data

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0800

Earlier this year in July, we announced the public preview for Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus. Today, we’re excited to announce that we are making these capabilities generally available to our customers.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Virtual Network, Event Hubs, Categories:

Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka®

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0800

In today’s business environment, with the rapidly increasing volume of data and the growing pressure to respond to events in real-time, organizations need data-driven strategies to gain valuable insights faster and increase their competitive advantage.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: