Routes events, Key Vault SecretNearExpiry for example, by pushing them to handlers such as Azure Functions. It stores nothing and cannot receive Entra diagnostic settings.
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- Access policies
Older permission model for Key Vault, now superseded by the Azure RBAC model.
- SecretNearExpiry
Event that Key Vault publishes to Event Grid 30 days ahead of a secret's expiry. Since secrets lack a built-in rotation policy, a Logic App or function typically reacts to it to rotate them.
- Authorisation levels
Key requirements for HTTP triggers in Azure Functions: Anonymous needs no key, Function accepts a function or host key, and Admin requires the master key.
Related terms
- Azure DevOps auditing
Records configuration and security changes across an organisation for 90 days. Export or view it on the Auditing page, or stream it to Event Grid, Splunk or Azure Monitor Logs.
- Azure Functions
Serverless compute for event-driven code, started by triggers such as HTTP, timer, Blob or Event Grid and hosted on a Consumption, Premium or Dedicated plan.
- Defender for Storage malware scanning
As blobs are uploaded, Microsoft Defender Antivirus checks them. Charges are per GB, limited each month per account (10,000 GB by default), and results can land in blob index tags, Event Grid, Log Analytics or security alerts.
- Event Grid custom topic
An Event Grid endpoint you create yourself to accept events, such as Defender for Storage scan results, and deliver them to subscribers like Logic Apps or Azure Functions.
- Event Grid Data Sender
A built-in Azure role for publishing: holders, being Microsoft Entra identities, may push events to Event Grid topics, domains or namespace topics, via the Microsoft.EventGrid/events/send/action permission.
- Event Grid domain
Lets one Event Grid resource fan out a large number of topics or event types, each to its own subscribers.
- Event Grid trigger
Starts an Azure Function whenever an Event Grid event arrives.
- EventGrid EventSubscription Contributor
A built-in Azure role for managing Event Grid subscriptions. Granting it, alongside the relevant storage roles, allows Azure Databricks to create the resources for file events and for Auto Loader's notification mode without manual set-up.