Users' questions

What does Event Hub do?

What does Event Hub do?

Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service that’s simple, trusted, and scalable. Stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and immediately respond to business challenges.

How do I transfer data from IoT hub to event hub?

Configure Azure IoT Hub

  1. Name the Event Subscription.
  2. Configure data as the “System Topic Name”.
  3. In the “Event Types” configuration, Select at least “Device Telemetry” and any other event you’d like to forward to Losant.
  4. Select “Web Hook” as the “Endpoint Type”

What is the difference between event hub and event grid?

The noticeable difference between them is that Event Hubs are accepting only endpoints for the ingestion of data and they don’t provide a mechanism for sending data back to publishers. On the other hand, Event Grid sends HTTP requests to notify events that happen in publishers. Event Grid can trigger an Azure Function.

Is event hub expensive?

The smallest possible (standard) Event Hub with one throughput unit can process per second up to 1000 events with a total size of up to 1 MB and costs about US$ 22 per month. Additionally, per million messages 2.8 US Cents have to be paid (Event Hub Pricing).

Why is Microsoft Azure IoT Hub?

IoT Hub was developed to address the unique requirements of connecting IoT devices to the Azure cloud while Event Hubs was designed for big data streaming. Microsoft recommends using Azure IoT Hub to connect IoT devices to Azure. Azure IoT Hub is the cloud gateway that connects IoT devices to gather data and drive business insights and automation.

What is a hub event?

Event Hubs are the “front door” for an event processing system, and provide little logic beyond what is required for managing scalability. Event Hubs are only receiving endpoints for ingestion of data and provide no mechanism for sending data back to publishers.

What is Microsoft event hub?

Event Hub Event Hub is a Azure service that can be used to take a large amount of data/events (can take or log millions of data or events per second nearly in real time). This large amount of data can be collected from web sites, client apps (mobile, web), IOT sensors and feeds from social networks.