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Send custom events for Azure Event Grid to Event Hubs | Microsoft Docs
Use Azure Event Grid and Azure CLI to publish a topic, and subscribe to that event. An event hub is used for the endpoint.
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Route custom events to Azure Event Hubs with Azure CLI and Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is an eventing service for the cloud. Azure Event Hubs is one of the supported event handlers. In this article, you use the Azure CLI to create a custom topic, subscribe to the custom topic, and trigger the event to view the result. You send the events to an event hub.

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Create a resource group

Event Grid topics are Azure resources, and must be placed in an Azure resource group. The resource group is a logical collection into which Azure resources are deployed and managed.

Create a resource group with the az group create command.

The following example creates a resource group named gridResourceGroup in the westus2 location.

az group create --name gridResourceGroup --location westus2

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Create a Custom Topic

An event grid topic provides a user-defined endpoint that you post your events to. The following example creates the custom topic in your resource group. Replace <your-topic-name> with a unique name for your custom topic. The custom topic name must be unique because it's represented by a DNS entry.

topicname=<your-topic-name>
az eventgrid topic create --name $topicname -l westus2 -g gridResourceGroup

Create event hub

Before subscribing to the custom topic, let's create the endpoint for the event message. You create an event hub for collecting the events.

namespace=<unique-namespace-name>
hubname=demohub

az eventhubs namespace create --name $namespace --resource-group gridResourceGroup
az eventhubs eventhub create --name $hubname --namespace-name $namespace --resource-group gridResourceGroup

Subscribe to a custom topic

You subscribe to an event grid topic to tell Event Grid which events you want to track. The following example subscribes to the custom topic you created, and passes the resource ID of the event hub for the endpoint. The endpoint is in the format:

/subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name>/providers/Microsoft.EventHub/namespaces/<namespace-name>/eventhubs/<hub-name>

The following script gets the resource ID for the event hub, and subscribes to an event grid topic. It sets the endpoint type to eventhub and uses the event hub ID for the endpoint.

hubid=$(az eventhubs eventhub show --name $hubname --namespace-name $namespace --resource-group gridResourceGroup --query id --output tsv)

az eventgrid event-subscription create \
  --topic-name $topicname \
  -g gridResourceGroup \
  --name subtoeventhub \
  --endpoint-type eventhub \
  --endpoint $hubid

The account that creates the event subscription must have write access to the event hub.

Send an event to your custom topic

Let's trigger an event to see how Event Grid distributes the message to your endpoint. First, let's get the URL and key for the custom topic.

endpoint=$(az eventgrid topic show --name $topicname -g gridResourceGroup --query "endpoint" --output tsv)
key=$(az eventgrid topic key list --name $topicname -g gridResourceGroup --query "key1" --output tsv)

To simplify this article, you use sample event data to send to the custom topic. Typically, an application or Azure service would send the event data. CURL is a utility that sends HTTP requests. In this article, use CURL to send the event to the custom topic. The following example sends three events to the event grid topic:

for i in 1 2 3
do
   event='[ {"id": "'"$RANDOM"'", "eventType": "recordInserted", "subject": "myapp/vehicles/motorcycles", "eventTime": "'`date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z`'", "data":{ "make": "Ducati", "model": "Monster"},"dataVersion": "1.0"} ]'
   curl -X POST -H "aeg-sas-key: $key" -d "$event" $endpoint
done

Navigate to the event hub in the portal, and notice that Event Grid sent those three events to the event hub.

Show messages

Typically, you create an application that retrieves the events from the event hub. To create an application that gets messages from an event hub, see:

Clean up resources

If you plan to continue working with this event, don't clean up the resources created in this article. Otherwise, use the following command to delete the resources you created in this article.

az group delete --name gridResourceGroup

Next steps

Now that you know how to create topics and event subscriptions, learn more about what Event Grid can help you do: