Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is a highly scalable data streaming platform and event ingestion service capable of processing millions of events per second. It acts as the 'front door' for an event pipeline, ingesting data from various sources and making it available for multiple real-time and batch…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2013
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Event Hubs was created to address the challenges of ingesting, storing, and processing massive volumes of real-time data streams from diverse sources like IoT devices, application logs, and website clickstreams. It provides a scalable, reliable, and managed service for high-throughput event ingestion, allowing multiple downstream consumers to process events independently and concurrently without impacting the sender.
- Platforms
- Azure Cloud Platform, Any client environment with SDK support (Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, Go, C)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Companies in manufacturing, finance, healthcare, retail, and gaming sectors requiring high-volume event processing
- Microsoft (internal use cases for telemetry and logging across its services)
- Large enterprises leveraging Azure for IoT deployments and real-time analytics