azure-event-hubs

What this skill does

# Azure Event Hubs Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Event Hubs. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

## How to Use This Skill

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., `L35-L120`), use `read_file` with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., `[security.md](security.md)`), use `read_file` on the linked reference file

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This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content:
- **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill`. Returns Markdown.
- **Fallback**: Use `fetch_webpage` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown`. Returns Markdown.

## Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |
|----------|-------|-------------|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L49 | Diagnosing and fixing Event Hubs runtime issues: Kafka/AMQP errors, .NET/legacy exceptions, ARM failures, auth problems, connectivity, and Blob Storage checkpoint store errors. |
| Best Practices | L50-L55 | Guidance on routing events between AMQP, Kafka, and HTTPS, and on designing/scaling Event Hubs with partitions and throughput units for performance and capacity. |
| Decision Making | L56-L62 | Guidance on migrating from Kafka, selecting the right Event Hubs tier, and deciding when/how to use Auto Inflate for scaling and cost optimization |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L63-L69 | Patterns and guidance for Event Hubs reliability: availability/consistency design, geo-disaster recovery, and building/operating replication tasks (often with Azure Functions). |
| Limits & Quotas | L70-L76 | Event Hubs capacity, throughput, and entity limits; quota rules and enforcement; and using application groups to govern and throttle client access and usage. |
| Security | L77-L104 | Securing Event Hubs: auth (Entra ID, SAS, RBAC, managed identity), encryption and CMKs, network isolation (VNet, NSG, Private Link, NSP), TLS settings, and compliance/governance via Azure Policy. |
| Configuration | L105-L118 | Configuring Event Hubs behavior: partitions, retention, geo-DR, replication, processing units, metrics/logs, app groups, log compaction, and Avro capture schema. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L119-L136 | Patterns and code for integrating Event Hubs with .NET, Kafka (clients, Streams, Connect, Debezium), Flink, Spark, Akka, schema/JSON registry, and adding metadata or managing hubs programmatically |
| Deployment | L137-L143 | Guides for deploying Event Hubs with Kafka mirroring (MirrorMaker 1/2), setting up geo-replication, and running/local-testing Event Hubs apps using the emulator. |

### Troubleshooting
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Resolve common Azure Event Hubs Kafka migration issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/apache-kafka-frequently-asked-questions |
| Troubleshoot Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/apache-kafka-troubleshooting-guide |
| Troubleshoot AMQP errors in Azure Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-amqp-troubleshoot |
| Handle legacy Azure Event Hubs messaging exceptions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-messaging-exceptions |
| Handle Azure Event Hubs .NET exceptions and recommended actions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/exceptions-dotnet |
| Resolve Azure Resource Manager exceptions for Event Hubs operations | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/resource-manager-exceptions |
| Troubleshoot authentication and authorization failures in Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/troubleshoot-authentication-authorization |
| Resolve Blob Storage checkpoint store issues for Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/troubleshoot-checkpoint-store-issues |
| Diagnose and fix Azure Event Hubs connectivity issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/troubleshooting-guide |

### Best Practices
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Exchange Event Hubs events across AMQP, Kafka, and HTTPS | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-exchange-events-different-protocols |
| Scale Azure Event Hubs with partitions and throughput units | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-scalability |

### Decision Making
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Plan migration from Apache Kafka to Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/apache-kafka-migration-guide |
| Choose the right Azure Event Hubs tier | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/compare-tiers |
| Decide when and how to use Event Hubs Auto Inflate | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-auto-inflate |

### Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Design for availability and consistency in Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-availability-and-consistency |
| Apply Event Hubs event replication task patterns | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-federation-patterns |
| Design Event Hubs replication tasks with Azure Functions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-federation-replicator-functions |

### Limits & Quotas
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Azure Event Hubs platform limits and behavioral details | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-faq |
| Review Azure Event Hubs quotas and limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-quotas |
| Govern Event Hubs resources with application groups | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/resource-governance-overview |

### Security
| Topic | URL |
|-------|-----|
| Associate network security perimeters with Event Hubs namespaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/associate-network-security-perimeter |
| Authenticate applications with Entra ID for Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authenticate-application |
| Authenticate to Event Hubs using managed identities | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authenticate-managed-identity |
| Authenticate to Event Hubs using SAS tokens | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authenticate-shared-access-signature |
| Authorize Event Hubs access using Entra RBAC roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authorize-access-azure-active-directory |
| Choose authorization options for Azure Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authorize-access-event-hubs |
| Configure SAS authorization for Azure Event Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/authorize-access-shared-access-signature |
| Enable confidential computing for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/confidential-computing |
| Configure customer-managed keys for Azure Event Hubs encryption | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/configure-customer-managed-key |
| Enable and configure managed identities for Event Hubs namespaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/enable-managed-identity |
| Configure managed identity for Event Hubs Capture | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-capture-managed-identity |
| Obtain secure connection strings for Azure