A service that ingests telemetry from devices to the cloud and also manages those devices, offering an alternative to Event Hubs.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Event Hubs
Azure service for ingesting telemetry at high volume over HTTPS or AMQP; diagnostic settings can send data to it.
Related terms
- Eventstream
Lets you pull live events into Microsoft Fabric from Apache Kafka, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hubs and similar sources, reshape them and pass them on elsewhere, all with no coding; it belongs to Real-Time Intelligence.
- IoT Central
An IoT application platform delivered as SaaS; it does not do stream processing. Microsoft is retiring it: new applications can't be created from 23 September 2026 and existing ones run until 20 September 2029, with IoT Hub, the Device Provisioning Service and Microsoft Fabric as the recommended path.