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Get started with Fabric Real-Time hub

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Real-Time hub is the single estate for all data-in-motion across your entire organization. Every Microsoft Fabric tenant is automatically provisioned with Real-Time hub, with no extra steps needed to set up or manages it. For detailed overview, see Real-Time hub overview.

This article provides guidance on getting started with Fabric Real-Time hub.

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Fabric.

  2. Select Real-Time on the left navigation bar.

    Screenshot that shows the Fabric Real-Time hub with the default All data streams page selected.

All data streams page

On the All data streams page, you see all the streams and tables you can access. Streams are the outputs from Fabric eventstreams and tables are from Kusto Query Language (KQL) databases that you can access.

For a data stream of type stream, there are four actions available: -

For a data stream of type KQL table, there are four actions available:

  • Explore data option to explore data in the KQL table.

  • Create real-time dashboard (Preview) option to create a real-time dashboard based on data in the KQL table.

  • Open KQL Database option to open the KQL database that contains the table.

  • Endorse option to endorse data in the KQL table.

    Screenshot that shows the actions available on a KQL table stream.

My data streams page

The My data streams page shows all the streams you brought into Fabric into your workspace. To explore your streams and tables, use instructions from Explore my streams in Fabric Real-Time hub.

Screenshot that shows the actions available for a stream from the My streams page.

The actions available for streams or KQL tables are same as the ones mentioned in the previous All data streams section.

Data sources page

You can connect to data from both inside and outside of Fabric in a mere few steps within Fabric Real-Time hub. Whether data is coming from new or existing sources, streams, or available events, the Connect data source experience allows you to connect to a wide range of event sources directly from Real-Time hub.

It allows for easy connectivity to external data streams including Kafka connectors powered by Kafka Connect and Debezium connectors for fetching the Change Data Capture (CDC) streams. Connectivity to notification sources and discrete events is also included, which enables access to notification events from Azure and other clouds solutions including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

There are two ways you can get to the Data sources page:

  • By selecting + Connect data source on the All data streams or My data streams pages.

    Screenshot that shows the Connect to data source button.

  • By selecting + Data sources under Connect to category on the left navigation menu.

    Screenshot that shows the Data sources page under Connect to category.

Then, follow the prompts to complete the flow. Here's a full list of built-in sources.

Source Source Source
Sample data Azure Event Hubs Azure Service Bus
Azure IoT Hub Azure SQL Database Change Data Capture (CDC) Azure Database for PostgreSQL CDC
Azure Database for MySQL CDC Azure Cosmos DB CDC Azure SQL Managed Instance CDC
Azure Data Explorer SQL Server on VM DB CDC Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Confluent Cloud Kafka Apache Kafka
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Azure Blob Storage events Fabric Workspace Item events

You can connect to these services and create eventstreams that show up on My data streams and All data streams pages. Select a link for a source in the list to learn how to create an eventstream for that source.

Microsoft sources page

Microsoft sources page in the Connect to section shows you all the Microsoft data sources you can access. They include sources of the following types.

Source Source Source
Azure Event Hubs Azure Service Bus (preview) Azure IoT Hub
Azure SQL Database Change Data Capture (CDC) Azure Database for PostgreSQL CDC Azure Database for MySQL CDC
Azure Cosmos DB CDC Azure SQL Managed Instance CDC SQL Server on VM DB CDC
Azure Data Explorer

You can connect to these resources and create eventstreams that show up on My data streams and All data streams pages. Select a link for a source in the list to learn how to create an eventstream for that source.

Screenshot that shows the Microsoft sources page in Real-Time hub.

Fabric events page

The Fabric events page shows you the list of system events generated in Fabric that you can access. You can create eventstreams for events from your Fabric workspaces. You can also set up an alert to send notifications via email, Teams etc. when an event occurs. Use links from the list to navigate to articles that show you how to create eventstreams for Fabric workspace item events.

Screenshot that shows the Fabric events page in Real-Time hub.

Azure events page

The Azure events page shows you the list of system events generated in Azure that you can access. You can create eventstreams for events from your Azure blob storage. You can also set up an alert to send notifications via email, Teams etc. when an event occurs. Use links from the list to navigate to articles that show you how to create eventstreams for Azure Blob Storage events.

See following articles to learn how to setup alerts on Fabric events:

Screenshot that shows the Azure events page in Real-Time hub.