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Azure Stream Analytics No-code Editor: new features and improvements in Jan 2024
Enhancements and new features have been introduced to the Stream Analytics no-code editor, accessible through both the Azure Event Hubs portal and the Azure Stream Analytics portal. These updates aim to deliver a more intuitive and user-friendly experience for users.
October 2023
Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Event Hubs SDK for Go
The new Azure Event Hubs SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that send and receive events from Azure Event Hubs.
May 2023
Generally available: Apache MirrorMaker 2 support in Azure Event Hubs
Users now can utilize MirrorMaker2 for effortless data replication from their on-premises or managed Kafka cluster directly to Event Hubs.
Generally available: Kafka Connect support in Azure Event Hubs
With Kafka Connect support GA, users can seamlessly and reliably stream data between Azure Event Hubs and external systems such as databases, key-value stores, file systems and other data sources.
Generally available: Managed Identities support for Capture in Event Hubs
Users now can use managed identities when capturing event streams to storage services such as Azure Storage Services or Azure Data Lake storage 2.
Generally available: Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
Log compaction in Event Hubs introduces a key-based retention mechanism where the most recent value associated with each event key in an event hub or Kafka topic is retained.
Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Event Hub output.
Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration
Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.
Generally available: Azure Event Hubs Dedicated self-serve scalable clusters for mission critical Kafka, AMQP and HTTPs workloads
Target availability: Q1 2023
Run you mission critical Kafka, AMQP and HTTPS event streaming workloads with consitenct low latency.
March 2023
Generally available: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information at namespace or event hub/Kafka topic level.
February 2023
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including Power BI output support, and data preview optimization. Power BI output feature enables you to build real-time dashboard in minutes and low-cost.
January 2023
Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format
Stream Analytics no-code editor now supports capturing Event Hubs data into ADLS gen2 with Delta Lake format.
December 2022
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in December 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including multiple parameter built-in functions support, Delta Lake format support in ADLS Gen2 output sink.
October 2022
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs
Stream Analytics no-code editor enables you to develop a Stream Analytics job in minutes with drag and drop experience. Now, it is generally available with several new capabilities added.
June 2022
Public preview: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Target availability: Q2 2022
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information.
Public preview: Apache Parquet capturing support in Azure Event Hubs
Target availability: Q2 2022
Load real-time streaming data in Azure Event Hubs to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services in Parquet format.
May 2022
Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor
Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.
November 2021
General availability: Event Hubs Premium
Event Hubs Premium comes with reserved compute, memory, and storage resources, which increases the performance and minimizes cross-tenant interference in a managed multi-tenant PaaS environment.
May 2021
Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview
Event Hubs Premium is a new product SKU that is tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios that require elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.
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