Get Azure Blob Storage events into Real-Time hub (preview)

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11/19/2024

This article describes how to get Azure Blob Storage events into Fabric Real-Time hub.

An event is the smallest amount of information that fully describes that something happened in a system. Azure Blob Storage events are triggered when a client creates, replaces, deletes a blob, etc. By using the Real-Time hub, you can convert these events into continuous data streams and transform them before routing them to various destinations in Fabric.

The following Blob Storage event types are supported:

Event name	Description
Microsoft.Storage.BlobCreated	Triggered when a blob is created or replaced.
Microsoft.Storage.BlobDeleted	Triggered when a blob is deleted.
Microsoft.Storage.BlobRenamed	Triggered when a blob is renamed.
Microsoft.Storage.BlobTierChanged	Triggered when the blob access tier is changed.
Microsoft.Storage.DirectoryCreated	Triggered when a directory is created.
Microsoft.Storage.DirectoryRenamed	Triggered when a directory is renamed.
Microsoft.Storage.AsyncOperationInitiated	Triggered when an operation involving moving or copying data from the archive to hot or cool tiers is initiated.
Microsoft.Storage.DirectoryDeleted	Triggered when a directory is deleted.
Microsoft.Storage.BlobInventoryPolicyCompleted	Triggered when the inventory run completes for a rule that defines an inventory policy.
Microsoft.Storage.LifecyclePolicyCompleted	Triggered when the actions defined by a lifecycle management policy are done.

For more information about available event types, see Azure Blob Storage as Event Grid source.

Note

Consuming Fabric and Azure events via eventstream or Fabric Activator is not supported if the capacity region of the eventstream or Activator is in the following regions: Germany West Central, South-Central US, West US2, West US3, West India.

Prerequisites

Access to a workspace in the Fabric capacity license mode (or) the Trial license mode with Contributor or higher permissions.
An Azure Blob Storage account of kind StorageV2 (general purpose v2), Block Blob Storage, or Blob Storage. General purpose v1 storage accounts aren't supported.

Create streams for Azure Blob Storage events

You can create streams for Azure Blob Storage events in Real-Time hub using one of the ways:

Using the Data sources page
Using the Azure events page

Data sources page

Sign in to Microsoft Fabric.
Select Real-Time on the left navigation bar.
On the Real-Time hub page, select + Data sources under Connect to on the left navigation menu. You can also get to the Data sources page from All data streams or My data streams pages by selecting the + Connect data source button in the top-right corner.

On the Data sources page, select Azure events category at the top, and then select Connect on the Azure Blob Storage events tile.

Now, use instructions from the Configure and create an eventstream section.

Azure events page

In Real-Time hub, select Azure events on the left navigation menu.
Move the mouse over Azure Blob Storage, and select the + (plus) link, or select ... (ellipsis) and then select Create Eventstream.

Now, use instructions from the Configure and create an eventstream section.

Configure and create an eventstream

On the Connect page, select the Azure subscription that has the storage account.
Select the Azure Blob Storage account that you want to receive events for.
In the Stream details section, enter a name for the eventstream that the Wizard is going to create, and select the workspace where you want to save the eventstream.
Then, select Next at the bottom of the page.
On the Review + connect page, review settings, and select Connect.
When the wizard succeeds in creating a stream, on the Review + connect page, if you select Open eventstream, the wizard opens the eventstream that it created for you. To close the wizard, select Finish at the bottom of the page.