Understanding Azure Event Hubs

Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, real‑time data ingestion service that can receive and process millions of events per second. It serves as the "front door" for an event pipeline, enabling you to ingest data from a variety of sources and stream it to analytics providers or custom applications.

Key Features

• Massive scale – up to millions of events per second.
• Built‑in partitioning for parallel processing.
• Integration with Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Functions, and more.
• Support for Apache Kafka APIs.

Typical Use Cases

Typical scenarios include telemetry ingestion, log aggregation, clickstream analytics, and real‑time fraud detection.

Getting Started

To create an Event Hub, navigate to the Azure portal, select “Create a resource,” and choose “Event Hubs.” You’ll need to define a namespace, an event hub name, and the desired number of partitions.

For detailed step‑by‑step guidance, see the official documentation.