Data integrations overview
Data ingestion is the process used to load data from one or more sources into Azure Data Explorer. Once ingested, the data becomes available for query. Azure Data Explorer provides several connectors for data ingestion.
Use the following filters to see other connectors, tools, and integrations are available for your use case.
The following tables summarizes the available data connectors, tools, and integrations.
| Name | Functionality | Supports streaming? | Supports free cluster? | Type | Use cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Kafka | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party, Open source | Logs, Telemetry, Time series | |
| Apache Flink | Ingestion | ✔️ | Open source | Telemetry | |
| Apache Log4J 2 | Ingestion | ✔️ | ✔️ | First party, Open source | Logs |
| Apache Spark | Export Ingestion |
Open source | Telemetry | ||
| Apache Spark for Azure Synapse Analytics | Export Ingestion |
First party | Telemetry | ||
| Azure Cosmos DB | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | Change feed | |
| Azure Data Factory | Export Ingestion |
First party | Data orchestration | ||
| Azure Event Grid | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | Event processing | |
| Azure Event Hubs | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | Messaging | |
| Azure Functions | Export Ingestion |
First party | Workflow integrations | ||
| Azure IoT Hubs | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | IoT data | |
| Azure Stream Analytics | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | Event processing | |
| Cribl Stream | Ingestion | ✔️ | First party | Telemetry, Logs, Metrics, Machine data processing | |
| Fluent Bit | Ingestion | Open source | Logs, Metrics, Traces | ||
| Logstash | Ingestion | Open source | Logs | ||
| NLog | Ingestion | ✔️ | ✔️ | First party, Open source | Telemetry, Logs, Metrics |
| Open Telemetry | Ingestion | ✔️ | Open source | Traces, Metrics, Logs | |
| Power Automate | Export Ingestion |
First party | Data orchestration | ||
| Serilog | Ingestion | ✔️ | ✔️ | First party, Open source | Logs |
| Splunk | Ingestion | Open source | Logs | ||
| Splunk Universal Forwarder | Ingestion | Open source | Logs | ||
| Telegraf | Ingestion | ✔️ | Open source | Metrics, Logs |
For more information about connectors and tools, see Integrations overview.