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Fabric real-Time hub

  • mandarp0
  • Jan 22
  • 3 min read

Updated: Sep 4

In today's data-driven world, having a centralized, efficient, and easy-to-use platform for real-time data streaming is crucial for organizations. Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Hub serves as the single place for all data in motion across your entire organization, providing seamless data ingestion and processing capabilities without the need for complex setups.

What is Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Hub?

Microsoft Fabric Real-time Hub is a centralized platform designed to handle real-time data streams from various sources, offering businesses the capability to gain insights with minimal latency. It acts as a bridge between data producers and consumers, ensuring timely data availability for analytics, reporting, and automated actions.

Key Features

Unified ingestion pipeline:


  • Supports IoT devices, cloud services, and enterprise applications.

  • Offers high scalability and reliability.


Low-Latency Processing:


  • Processes streaming data in milliseconds for real-time analytics and alerts.

  • Supports complex event processing to detect patterns and anomalies.


Seamless Integration with Microsoft Ecosystem:


  • Connects effortlessly with Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Dynamics 365.


Advanced Security and Compliance:


  • Enterprise-grade encryption and access controls.

  • Complies with major industry regulations.


Intelligent Data Insights:


  • Leverages AI and machine learning for predictive insights and visualizations.


A Single Place for Data-in-Motion

Real-Time Hub acts as a centralized location to handle all your data streams across your organization.  Whether it’s discovering streams, ingesting data from multiple sources, or managing them, Real-Time Hub makes it easier than ever. It provides visibility into all event streams and KQL tables, offering an integrated approach to real-time data analytics.

Users within the tenant can collaborate and work with shared access to events and streams. This allows teams to develop and enhance streaming applications in one place.

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Numerous Connectors for Simplified Ingestion

Real-Time Hub offers a variety of out-of-the-box connectors, making it easier than ever to ingest data into Microsoft Fabric from multiple sources.


  • Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud, Amazon Kinesis, Kafka

  • Database CDC Feeds: Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, SQL Server

  • Microsoft Services: Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus, IoT Hub

  • Fabric & Azure Events: Workspace item events, Storage events


With these connectors, Real-Time Hub allows seamless integration with various components like event streams, KQL databases, and Fabric Activator.

Data Integration Made Easy

Real-Time Hub offers comprehensive data integration capabilities that help users track and manage their data streams effectively.

1. All Data Streams and Tables:

Automatically displays all stream outputs and KQL tables accessible to the user.

2. My Streams and Tables:

Provides an easy way to access all your streams in one place.

3. Integration with Microsoft Sources:

Lists all streaming resources from Microsoft services for seamless ingestion.

4. Fabric Events:

Supports event-driven scenarios, including triggering downstream actions such as invoking data pipelines or sending notifications.

Processing, Analyzing, and Acting on Data Streams

Real-Time Hub provides powerful features to process, analyze, and act on data streams with ease.

1. Processing Streams

Users can open an event stream in an editor and apply transformations such as:


  • Aggregate: Summarize the data.

  • Expand: Extract fields from complex data types.

  • Filter: Remove unnecessary data.

  • Group by: Organize data for better analysis.

  • Manage fields: Customize stream fields.

  • Union: Combine multiple data streams.


2.  Analyzing Streams


  • Send processed data to KQL tables for analysis.

  • Run queries against KQL tables to gain valuable insights.


3.  Acting on Streams


  • Set alerts based on predefined conditions.

  • Trigger automated actions such as invoking a pipeline or sending notifications.


Conclusion

Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Hub offers a robust and centralized solution to manage, process, and analyze streaming data across your organization. With its numerous connectors, seamless integrations, and user-friendly interface, it empowers businesses to stay ahead in their data-driven journey.

Whether you're looking to monitor real-time events, analyze trends, or trigger actions based on insights, Real-Time Hub provides the tools you need to succeed. Start leveraging the power of Real-Time Hub today and unlock the full potential of your streaming data.

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