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engineer1130
Nov 25, 2023Copper Contributor
Consumer REST API for Azure Event Hub
Hello, We have an existing setup where we use Kafka and we have a Kafka client written in Java that talks to the Kafka server. We have a Java producer that sends data to consumer for a topic and a J...
Kidd_Ip
Dec 15, 2025MVP
Azure Event Hubs does not offer a consumer REST API. While events can be published to an Event Hub using REST, event consumption must be performed through supported SDKs (such as Java, .NET, or Python) or by leveraging services like Azure Stream Analytics. Unlike Kafka, which organizes messages by topics, Event Hubs is designed around partitions and consumer groups. As a result, the REST API does not expose a “topic” field.