Build event-driven workflows with Azure and Fabric Events (Generally Available)
Business environments are more dynamic than ever, demanding real-time insights and automated responses to stay ahead. Organizations rely on event-driven solutions to detect changes, automate workflows, and drive intelligent actions as soon as events occur. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure and Fabric Events, a powerful capability that allows organizations to capture, process, and respond to events across Microsoft Fabric. With these events, businesses can integrate event-driven solutions into their workflows, enabling seamless automation, enhanced observability, and faster decision-making.
What are Azure and Fabric Events?
Azure and Fabric Events offer a capability within Real-Time Intelligence that enables you to:
- Ingest system events that are generated in Microsoft Fabric like OneLake events and in Azure like Azure blob storage events.
- Deliver events to consumers in Microsoft Fabric like Activator for setting event-based triggers or Eventstream to stream and process events to other destinations.
With Azure and Fabric Events, organizations can reduce latency, improve operational efficiency, and build scalable event-driven applications.
Key features
With Azure and Fabric Events now generally available, organizations can take advantage of:
- System events generated in Fabric and Azure:
- Onelake events: events produced by actions on files or folders in OneLake, such as file created, deleted, or renamed.
- Azure blob storage events: events produced by actions on files or folders in Azure blob storage, such as blob created, deleted, or renamed.
- Job events: events produced by status changes on Fabric monitor activities, such as a job created, succeeded, or failed.
- Workspace item events: events produced by actions on items in a workspace, such as an item created, deleted, or renamed.
- Note: Starting March 17, 2025, the Microsoft.Fabric.ItemReadSucceeded and Microsoft.Fabric.ItemReadFailed event types were retired.
- Integration of events with Fabric items:
- Eventstream: to transform, filter, and route real-time events to different destinations like Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Derived stream, Activator, or a custom endpoint.
- Activator: to trigger automated actions like e-mail/Teams notification, Power Automate flows, and other Fabric items like Pipelines and Notebooks.
- Rich filtering capability on event schema properties like the event type, subject or other attributes.
- CI/CD and REST API support through Eventstream’s REST APIs, Git integration, and deployment pipeline support.
- Region availability: in the upcoming weeks, Fabric events will be available in the following new regions: Israel Central, Japan West, France South, Germany North, Germany West Central, Italy North, Norway West, South Africa West, Spain Central, Central US, Mexico Central, West US 2, West US 3.
How can I use Azure and Fabric Events?
- By routing OneLake or Azure blob storage events to Activator, you can detect when a new file is uploaded to OneLake or Azure Blob Storage. As you route this event to Activator, you can trigger a pipeline to ingest the new file upon arrival.
- By routing Workspace item events to Eventstream, you can route the events to Lakehouse or Eventhouse for auditing purposes.
- By routing Job events to Activator, you can detect when a job has succeeded. As you route this event to Activator, you can trigger another job run to efficiently orchestrate your jobs.
- By routing any of the events to Eventstream, you can integrate them with your solution using the custom endpoint.
Check out this demo to watch the power of Azure and Fabric events in action!
Get started
The Azure and Fabric Events feature are available through Real-Time Hub. To start using them:
- In Microsoft Fabric, Select Real-Time on the left navigation bar.
- Select the Fabric events page or the Azure events page.
- Hover your mouse over any event group to select the actions. Select Set alert to integrate your events with Activator or select Create Eventstream to integrate your events with Eventstream. Once you select either action, a wizard will open to allow you to select the details of the source of events.
Example
What’s Next?
With the general availability of Azure and Fabric Events, Microsoft Fabric continues to expand its Real-Time Intelligence capabilities to empower event-driven architectures at scale. To learn more, please go to Azure and Fabric Events documentation.
Stay tuned for new event group types, consumers, and enhancements for Azure and Fabric Events that will further simplify real-time data processing, automation, and analytics. We are committed to improving the event-driven capabilities in Fabric so we encourage you to share your suggestions and feedback at Fabric Ideas for the Real-Time Hub category and join the conversation on the Fabric Community.
