Add Azure IoT Hub as source in Real-Time hub (preview)

This article describes how to get events from an Azure IoT hub into Real-Time hub.

Note

Real-Time hub is currently in preview.

Prerequisites

• Get access to the Fabric premium workspace with Contributor or above permissions.
• Create an Azure IoT hub if you don't have one.
• You need to have appropriate permission to get IoT hub's access keys. The IoT hub must be publicly accessible and not behind a firewall or secured in a virtual network.

Get events from an Azure IoT hub

You can get events from an Azure IoT hub into Real-Time hub in one of the ways:

• Using the Get events experience
• Using the Microsoft sources tab

Launch Get events experience

1. Switch to the Real-Time Intelligence experience in Microsoft Fabric. Select Microsoft Fabric on the left navigation bar, and select Real-Time Intelligence.

   

2. Select Real-Time hub on the left navigation bar.

   

3. On the Real-Time hub page, select + Get events in the top-right corner of the page.

   

Use instructions from the Add an Azure IoT hub as a source section.

Microsoft sources tab

1. In Real-Time hub, switch to the Microsoft sources tab.

2. In the Source drop-down list, select Azure IoT Hub.

3. For Subscription, select an Azure subscription that has the resource group with your IoT hub.

4. For Resource group, select a resource group that has your IoT hub.

5. For Region, select a location where your IoT hub is located.

6. Now, move the mouse over the name of the IoT hub that you want to connect to Real-Time hub in the list of IoT hubs, and select the Connect button, or select ... (ellipsis), and then select the Connect button.

   

   To configure connection information, use steps from the Add an Azure IoT hub as a source section. Skip the first step of selecting Azure IoT Hub as a source type in the Get events wizard.

Add an Azure IoT hub as a source

1. On the Select a data source page, select Azure IoT Hub.

   

2. If there's an existing connection to your Azure IoT hub, select that existing connection as shown in the following image, and then move on to the step to configure Data format in the following steps.

   

3. On the Connect page, select Go to resource to navigate to the Azure IoT hub. Take a note of the access key name and its value.

   

   To get the access key name and value, follow these steps:

   1. Navigate to the IoT Hub page for your Azure IoT hub in the Azure portal.

   2. On the IoT Hub page, select Shared access policies on the left navigation menu.

   3. Select a policy name from the list. Note down the policy name.

   4. Select the copy button next to the Primary key.

      

4. On the Connect page, select New connection.

   

5. In the Connection settings section, for IoT Hub, specify the name of your Azure IoT hub.

   

6. In the Connection credentials section, do these steps:

   1. If there's an existing connection, select it from the drop-down list. If not, confirm that Create new connection is selected for this option.

   2. For Connection name, enter a name for the connection to the IoT hub.

   3. For Authentication method, confirm that Shared Access Key is selected.

   4. For Shared Access Key Name, enter the name of the shared access key.

   5. For Shared Access Key, enter the value of the shared access key.

   6. Select Connect at the bottom of the page.1.

      

7. Now, on the Connect page of wizard, for Consumer group, enter the name of the consumer group. By default, $Default is selected, which is the default consumer group for the IoT hub.

8. For Data format, select a data format of the incoming real-time events that you want to get from your Azure IoT hub. You can select from JSON, Avro, and CSV data formats, and then select Connect.

9. In the Stream details section to the right, select the Fabric workspace where you want to save the eventstream that the Wizard is going to create.

10. For eventstream name, enter a name for the eventstream. The wizard creates an eventstream with the selected Azure IoT hub as a source.

11. The Stream name is automatically generated for you by appending -stream to the name of the eventstream. You see this stream on the Data streams tab of Real-Time hub when the wizard finishes.

12. Select Next at the bottom of the page.

    

13. On the Review and create page, review settings, and select Create source.

    

View data stream details

1. On the Review and create page, if you select Open eventstream, the wizard opens the eventstream with the selected Azure IoT hub as a source. To close the wizard, select Close at the bottom of the page.

   

2. In Real-Time hub, switch to the Data streams tab of Real-Time hub. Refresh the page. You should see the data stream created for you as shown in the following image.

   

   For detailed steps, see View details of data streams in Fabric Real-Time hub.

Related content

To learn about consuming data streams, see the following articles:

• Process data streams
• Analyze data streams
• Set alerts on data streams