The Azure Events Hub Connector will crawl content from a Azure Events Hub repository.
The Azure Events Hub connector can scan and fetch the contents of an Azure Events Hub repository.
The Azure Events Hub connector supports crawling the following the repositories:
Repository | Version | Connector Version |
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Azure Events Hub | All | 5.1 |
For the Azure Events Hub connector to be able to crawl content, the Aspire Worker nodes must be run with an account with an account that has the necessary permissions.
In order to access the Azure Events Hub connector, a connection must be established to a valid Azure Events Hub Service.
Microsoft Azure Events Hub is a service that is independent of Accenture Aspire technologies and licenses. For more information on Azure Events Hub see Azure Events Hub on Microsoft. You can also see this link for information on how to Create an event hub using Azure portal.
When creating the Event Hub you obtain the Namespace and Event Hub name. For the other 2 fields required for authentication, the SAS Key Name and the SAS Key, you can see this article on how to obtain a connection string, and get the values from that connection string. The connection string template looks like this:
Endpoint=sb://<FQDN>/;SharedAccessKeyName=<KeyName>;SharedAccessKey=<KeyValue>
Name | Supported |
---|---|
Content Crawling | Yes |
Identity Crawling | Yes |
Snapshot-based Incrementals | Yes |
Non-snapshot-based Incrementals | No |
Document Hierarchy | Yes |
The Azure Events Hub connector has the following features:
Retrieves any type of events and its attributes. The information is taken from the hub based on their post time. Listed below are the possible retrieval options.
From a previous time until now. For example: last hour, last 6 hours, last day, last 7 days
The Azure Events Hub connector is able to crawl the following objects:
Name | Type | Relevant Metadata | Content Fetch and Extraction | Description |
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Partition | container | partitionId | N/A | Holds event data |
Event Data | document | Yes | Contains event body, properties describing the event, metadata and timestamp to which it has been accepted |