MQTT Data Bridge to Apache Kafka

Question

I am working on migrating our existing IoT SaaS application from OVH cloud to Azure. We need to know if Azure MQTT Broker can publish events to Apache Kafka so that the services on the backend that are subscribed to Kafka can act on those events.

Answer 1

Hello @khuram zahid ,

welcome to this moderated Azure community forum.

MQTT messages received by an EventGrid Namespace MQTT broker can be forwarded by EventGrid Topics (not to be confused with MQTT protocol topics).

This can be a custom EventGrid Topic or an (integrated) EventGrid Namespace Topic.

Either way, these topics can forward messages to one or more endpoints.

Currently, the list of endpoint types are available:

As you can see, Apache Kafka is not supported in one go.

You need to forward messages to some service in between, like a web hook capable to connect to the Apache Kafka endpoint.

As an alternative, perhaps you can migrate the Apache Kafka service to Azure in the form of an EventHub.

In that case you can connect directly.

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