Azure Event Hubs

Current version v0.1

See the changelog of this Sink here.

Overview

The Azure Event Hubs Sink lets you send messages to an Azure Event Hub for real-time data streaming, providing support for message batching, retries, and secure connection options.

Configuration

Now you need to specify how and where to send the data, and how to establish a connection with Azure Storage.

Metadata

Enter the basic information for the new Data Sink.

Parameters	Description
Name*	Enter a name for the new Data Sink.
Description	Optionally, enter a description for the Data Sink.
Tags	Add tags to easily identify your Sink. Hit the Enter key after you define each tag.

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For information on where to find these values, see Azure Storage in our resources center.

Metrics

Decide whether or not to include this Data sink info in the metrics and graphs of the Home area.

Configuration

Now add the configuration to establish the connection.

Parameters	Description
Event Hub Namespace*	The namespace is a container, or topic, for event hubs.
Event Hub Name*	Enter the name of the specific event hub to connect to.
Connection String	To communicate with an event hub or a namespace, you need a connection string that can be obtained copying the Connection string-primary key.
Authentication Method*	If authentication is required, select the Method and enter the credentials of the selected method below.

SASL Authentication Paramaters

If you selected SASL as the authentication method.

• SASL Username* - your SASL usename.

• SASL Password* - select or create the secrets containing this value.

• Authentication Token - select or create the secrets containing this value.

• Tenant ID - enter the ID of your SASL tenant.

• Client ID - enter the ID of the client.

TLS Configuration Parameters

If you selected TLS as the authentication method.

• CA certificate - This is the predefined TLS certificate.

• Client Certificate - The client for the corresponding certificate.

• Batch Size: enter how many events to collect until considered full.

• Batch Timeout: enter the number of seconds to wait before considering the batch completed.

• Retry Attempts: in the case of Timeout, enter how many times to retry the connection.

• Retry Interval: enter the amount of seconds to wait before retrying.

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Select Finish when completed and see it in your list of Sinks.