Announcing the Event Hubs Data Explorer: a handy tool for getting started and debugging
Transform your event-driven architectures with the new Event Hubs Data Explorer! Whether you're debugging, optimizing, or just getting started, this tool offers a unified interface for producing and consuming event data, providing invaluable insights. Explore the endless possibilities with Event Hubs Data Explorer!Announcing the General Availability of Event Hubs Data Explorer
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Event Hubs Data Explorer in the Azure portal! Ever since our preview announcement in September, we've heard customers rave about how the Event Hubs Data Explorer has already made its way into their daily workflows to onboard, debug and review the data in their Event Hubs with very little effort. Customer-Centric Design We listened to your feedback and designed the Event Hubs Data Explorer to address your needs. We've had a lot of customers try this tool and share feedback on how its saving them significant time and effort when it comes to viewing their Event Hubs in action and performing basic debugging tasks. Simplified Onboarding and Debugging The Event Hubs Data Explorer is perfect for both new and experienced users. It provides a comprehensive view of event data, making it easy to test event producers and consumers. You can quickly validate your setup with custom workloads or predefined datasets, ensuring everything is configured correctly. Debugging is now more straightforward than ever. With the ability to inspect data at specific timestamps or offsets, you can quickly identify and resolve issues, optimizing your event processing workflows. Getting Started To start using the Event Hubs Data Explorer, navigate to your Event Hubs namespace in the Azure portal. From there, you can access the Data Explorer and begin sending and viewing events with just a few clicks. You can also check out the documentation here. We are excited to see how you leverage the Event Hubs Data Explorer to drive innovation and efficiency in your projects. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping this tool, and we look forward to continuing to improve our offerings based on your insights.
Introducing Kafka Support in Event Hubs emulator
Azure Event Hubs is a cloud-native data streaming service that streams millions of events per second with low latency, from any source to any destination. Compatible with Apache Kafka®, it allows you to run existing Kafka workloads without code changes. Earlier this year, we released the Event Hubs emulator for local development, which initially only supported AMQP protocol. We are now excited to announce Apache Kafka® protocol support in the Event Hubs emulator. Why emulator? Developers across the globe love emulators! While there are numerous compelling reasons to use emulators, here are just a few of those reasons to consider: Optimized Development Loop: The emulator speeds up dev/testing against Azure Event Hubs. Pre-migration Trial: Try Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka® using your existing Kafka applications before migrating to the cloud. Isolated Environment: Use the emulator for dev/test setup without network latency or cloud resource constraints. Cost-efficient: The emulator is free and can be run on your local machine for dev/testing. Note: The emulator is intended only for development and testing. It should not be used for production workloads. Official support is not provided, and any issues or suggestions should be reported via GitHub. Kickstart development with Event Hubs emulator The emulator is available as a Docker image on Microsoft Artifact 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 producer and consumer APIs are currently compatible with the emulator. Additional API support will be provided in future incremental versions. To test Apache Kafka® applications locally with the Event Hubs emulator, visit aka.ms/devtestwithehemulator. Learn more about Event Hubs: Azure Event Hubs: Data streaming platform with Kafka support - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learn Introduction to Apache Kafka® in Event Hubs on Azure Cloud - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learn We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share it with us. Please provide feedback or report any issues at our GitHub repository: Issues · Azure/azure-event-hubs-emulator-installer May the Event Hubs emulator light up your test cases in green! 😊Announcing public preview for Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated
Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated is now in public preview. Learn how to enable this feature for your Event Hubs namespaces and enjoy the benefits of high availability, disaster recovery, and regional compliance.Announcing new supported formats for Azure Schema Registry
We are excited to announce the general availability of JSON schema support and public preview availability of Protobuf support in the Azure Event Hubs schema registry for Kafka applications. The Event Hubs schema registry offers a central repository for schema documents utilized by messaging-centric and event-driven applications.
