Azure Notification Hubs Basic Tier 10K broadcast (tag size) limit

Question

Hello,
If I want to send a push notification to ALL 200K device registrations on my Azure NH, is it going to send the push notification to ALL 200K device registrations, or the push notification is going to be sent only to the first 10K randomly-selected device registrations in my namespace ?

I am trying to make sense of the 10K broadcast (tag size) limitation of the Basic Tier. If that is true, then, how can I broadcast a message to the MAX device registrations in my namespace?

BR,
P.

Answer 1

Hi

1. You can send any number of messages, but according to current throttling quotas for Basic SKU, you will be throttled if send more than 100k messages per minute. Standard SKU has 10 times bigger limit of 1M per minute
2. You need to check the notification outcome. When you perform send, you get back an URI where you can check the result of asynchronous send operation. But details about expired channels are only available for Standard SKU. Maybe I missed something, you can just check yourself, query that notification outcome URI and see what it says

Answer 2

Hello @Anonymous , I'm Vladimir from Notification Hubs team.
The limit you are facing is needed to balance the load on the service with our costs. If you want to be able to send unlimited broadcast, you need to switch to Standard SKU

Answer 3

Hi @Vladimir Perevalov and thanks for your response.

if I do not want to use tags, but use Direct Send API calls instead, is there a limit to the number of Device registrations I can broadcast a push notification message, other than the limit of the NH namespace?

Answer 4

I shall check this like you suggest and will get back to you.