Announcing the General Availability of Fabric Real-Time Hub, an enterprise-wide catalog that enables users to discover, connect to, explore and act upon streaming data and events from anywhere. With seamless integration across all Real-Time Intelligence services like Fabric Eventstreams, Eventhouse and Activator, Real-Time Hub greatly accelerates gaining real-time insights.
Fabric Real-Time Hub
How does Real-Time Hub Accelerate Gaining Real-Time Insights?
- Discover: Users can find all active Eventstreams streams and KQL tables that they have access to, automatically listed. In addition, potential Azure streaming sources, such as Azure Event Hubs, IoTHub, CDC-enabled Azure SQL Databases etc. that users have permissions to are also listed under ‘Microsoft Sources’ category. Upfront filter and search functions make it easy to quickly identify the right one.
- Connect: Can’t find what you are looking for? ‘Connect Data Source’ provides a streamlined connection experience to more than 20 streaming sources (keep growing), including Azure streaming sources, Kafka clusters, CDC of databases, AWS and Google streaming sources and Fabric events.
- Explore: Once users have found streaming data, they can use the 'Data Preview' feature to get a quick glimpse of data schema and view a sample of the incoming events. Users can also review the incoming and outgoing message throughput and volume. This can help users decide whether to use this stream and if any further transformations are needed for their scenarios.
- Act: Real-Time Hub provides rich ‘shortcuts’ to perform the most frequent actions that users need. For example, with just one click users can ‘set alert’ to trigger actions when certain conditions are satisfied. This enables customers to proactively monitor and automatically respond to changes – all in near real-time.
- Manage: Users can not only create new streaming sources, but they can also update data asset descriptions and endorse items as needed. In addition, users can easily track the streaming data flow by periodically reviewing the upstream and downstream lineage view.
Fabric Real-time Hub was originally released to Public Preview at Build 2024 and has since become one of the most broadly adopted features within Real-time Intelligence suite. At the same time, our customers continue to give us valuable feedback to make Real-Time Hub even better, and we are listening!
What’s New for Ignite 2024?
- Simplified Azure Event Hubs source connection: We have simplified the experience when connecting to an existing Azure Event Hub. For users with the right permissions to access the available Azure Event Hubs, a single click is all it takes for Fabric to automatically establish the connection to the source.
- New Sources: Azure Service Bus, Apache Kafka, CDC from SQL Server on VM DB and CDC from Azure SQL Managed Instance are added to the 'Connect Data Source' options.
- Rich Sample Scenarios: For users who are new to Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, we provide three streaming data samples for you to get started.
- Generate Real-time Dashboards (Preview): Users can soon quickly and automatically create real-time dashboards by selecting ‘Create Real-Time Dashboard (Preview)’ on KQL Tables. This CoPilot assisted feature can take users input to generate the most common real-time dashboards within seconds.
What’s Coming post Ignite 2024?
- New OneLake, Job and Capacity Utilization Events (coming soon): Customers will soon be able to build event-driven applications, trigger Notebooks and workflows or send emails and Teams IM when OneLake files/tables are created, deleted or renamed (OneLake events), Jobs are started or completed (Job Events) and Fabric capacity has crossed certain utilization thresholds (Capacity events).
- Explore Data action on KQL tables (coming soon): Customers will be able to explore the KQL table data using a no-code experience without leaving the Real-time Hub.
- Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Database Shortcut (coming soon): Customers will be able to create Fabric Eventhouse database shortcuts on Real-Time hub 'Microsoft Sources' page for their ADX clusters. This feature enables users to efficiently analyze Azure Data Explorer data within Fabric.
We look forward to bringing Real-Time Hub as the starting point for your Real-Time Intelligence journey. Learn more about Real-Time Hub Try it out and give us feedback through Ask Fabric Real-time Hub: askrth@microsoft.com
Learn about how to use Real-Time Hub and Real-Time Intelligence in a real-life use case:
What’s next?
There will be more exciting developments as we continue to innovate and expand the capabilities of Real-Time Intelligence. Learn more about all the features and follow a step-by-step tutorial at. Join the conversation and vote for your favorite features.
Over the next month we’ll be releasing a series of blog posts that dive into all the capabilities further. Stay tuned for more!