.NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration
In this article, you learn how to use the .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration. The Aspire.Azure.Messaging.EventHubs
library offers options for registering the following types:
- EventHubProducerClient
- EventHubBufferedProducerClient
- EventHubConsumerClient
- EventProcessorClient
- PartitionReceiver
These type are registered in the DI container for connecting to Azure Event Hubs.
Prerequisites
- Azure subscription: create one for free.
- Azure Event Hubs namespace: for more information, see add an Event Hubs namespace. Alternatively, you can use a connection string, which isn't recommended in production environments.
Get started
To get started with the .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration, install the Aspire.Azure.Messaging.EventHubs NuGet package in the client-consuming project, i.e., the project for the application that uses the Azure Event Hubs client.
dotnet add package Aspire.Azure.Messaging.EventHubs
For more information, see dotnet add package or Manage package dependencies in .NET applications.
Supported clients with options classes
The following clients are supported by the library, along with their corresponding options and settings classes:
Azure Client type | Azure Options class | .NET Aspire Settings class |
---|---|---|
EventHubProducerClient |
EventHubProducerClientOptions |
AzureMessagingEventHubsProducerSettings |
EventHubBufferedProducerClient |
EventHubBufferedProducerClientOptions |
AzureMessagingEventHubsBufferedProducerSettings |
EventHubConsumerClient |
EventHubConsumerClientOptions |
AzureMessagingEventHubsConsumerSettings |
EventProcessorClient |
EventProcessorClientOptions |
AzureMessagingEventHubsProcessorSettings |
PartitionReceiver |
PartitionReceiverOptions |
AzureMessagingEventHubsPartitionReceiverSettings |
The client type are from the Azure SDK for .NET, as are the corresponding options classes. The settings classes are provided by the .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration library.
Example usage
The following example assumes that you have an Azure Event Hubs namespace and an Event Hub created and wish to configure an EventHubProducerClient
to send events to the Event Hub. The EventHubBufferedProducerClient
, EventHubConsumerClient
, EventProcessorClient
, and PartitionReceiver
are configured in a similar manner.
In the Program.cs file of your client-consuming project, call the AddAzureEventHubProducerClient
extension to register a EventHubProducerClient
for use via the dependency injection container.
builder.AddAzureEventHubProducerClient("eventHubsConnectionName");
You can then retrieve the EventHubProducerClient
instance using dependency injection. For example, to retrieve the client from a service:
public class ExampleService(EventHubProducerClient client)
{
// Use client...
}
For more information, see the Azure.Messaging.EventHubs documentation for examples on using the EventHubProducerClient
.
App host usage
To add Azure Event Hub hosting support to your IDistributedApplicationBuilder, install the Aspire.Hosting.Azure.EventHubs NuGet package in the app host project.
dotnet add package Aspire.Hosting.Azure.EventHubs
In your app host project, add an Event Hubs connection and an Event Hub resource and consume the connection using the following methods:
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventHubs = builder.AddAzureEventHubs("eventHubsConnectionName")
.AddEventHub("MyHub");
var exampleService = builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleService>()
.WithReference(eventHubs);
The AddAzureEventHubs
method will read connection information from the AppHost's configuration (for example, from "user secrets") under the ConnectionStrings:eventHubsConnectionName
config key. The WithReference
method passes that connection information into a connection string named eventHubsConnectionName
in the ExampleService
project.
As of .NET Aspire 8.1, the Azure EventHubs extension for .NET Aspire supports launching a local emulator for EventHubs. You can use the emulator by applying the RunAsEmulator()
extension method as follows:
var eventHubs = builder.AddAzureEventHubs("eventHubsConnectionName")
.RunAsEmulator()
.AddEventHub("MyHub");
The emulator for Azure EventHubs results in two container resources being launched inside .NET Aspire derived from the name of the Event Hubs resource name.
Important
Even though we are creating an Event Hub using the AddEventHub
at the same time as the namespace, as of .NET Aspire version preview-5
, the connection string will not include the EntityPath
property, so the EventHubName
property must be set in the settings callback for the preferred client. Future versions of Aspire will include the EntityPath
property in the connection string and will not require the EventHubName
property to be set in this scenario.
In the Program.cs file of ExampleService
, the connection can be consumed using by calling of the supported Event Hubs client extension methods:
builder.AddAzureEventProcessorClient(
"eventHubsConnectionName",
static settings =>
{
settings.EventHubName = "MyHub";
});
Configuration
The .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs library provides multiple options to configure the Azure Event Hubs connection based on the requirements and conventions of your project. Either a FullyQualifiedNamespace
or a ConnectionString
is a required to be supplied.
Use a connection string
When using a connection string from the ConnectionStrings
configuration section, provide the name of the connection string when calling builder.AddAzureEventHubProducerClient()
and other supported Event Hubs clients. In this example, the connection string does not include the EntityPath
property, so the EventHubName
property must be set in the settings callback:
builder.AddAzureEventHubProducerClient(
"eventHubsConnectionName",
static settings =>
{
settings.EventHubName = "MyHub";
});
And then the connection information will be retrieved from the ConnectionStrings
configuration section. Two connection formats are supported:
Fully Qualified Namespace (FQN)
The recommended approach is to use a fully qualified namespace, which works with the AzureMessagingEventHubsSettings.Credential
property to establish a connection. If no credential is configured, the DefaultAzureCredential is used.
{
"ConnectionStrings": {
"eventHubsConnectionName": "{your_namespace}.servicebus.windows.net"
}
}
Connection string
Alternatively, use a connection string:
{
"ConnectionStrings": {
"eventHubsConnectionName": "Endpoint=sb://mynamespace.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=accesskeyname;SharedAccessKey=accesskey;EntityPath=MyHub"
}
}
Use configuration providers
The .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs library supports Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration. It loads the AzureMessagingEventHubsSettings
and the associated Options, e.g. EventProcessorClientOptions
, from configuration by using the Aspire:Azure:Messaging:EventHubs:
key prefix, followed by the name of the specific client in use. For example, consider the appsettings.json that configures some of the options for an EventProcessorClient
:
{
"Aspire": {
"Azure": {
"Messaging": {
"EventHubs": {
"EventProcessorClient": {
"EventHubName": "MyHub",
"ClientOptions": {
"Identifier": "PROCESSOR_ID"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
You can also setup the Options type using the optional Action<IAzureClientBuilder<EventProcessorClient, EventProcessorClientOptions>> configureClientBuilder
parameter of the AddAzureEventProcessorClient
method. For example, to set the processor's client ID for this client:
builder.AddAzureEventProcessorClient(
"eventHubsConnectionName",
configureClientBuilder: clientBuilder => clientBuilder.ConfigureOptions(
options => options.Identifier = "PROCESSOR_ID"));
Observability and telemetry
.NET Aspire integrations automatically set up Logging, Tracing, and Metrics configurations, which are sometimes known as the pillars of observability. For more information about integration observability and telemetry, see .NET Aspire integrations overview. Depending on the backing service, some integrations may only support some of these features. For example, some integrations support logging and tracing, but not metrics. Telemetry features can also be disabled using the techniques presented in the Configuration section.
Logging
The .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration uses the following log categories:
Azure.Core
Azure.Identity
Tracing
The .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration will emit the following tracing activities using OpenTelemetry:
- "Azure.Messaging.EventHubs.*"
Metrics
The .NET Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration currently doesn't support metrics by default due to limitations with the Azure SDK for .NET. If that changes in the future, this section will be updated to reflect those changes.