Exploring message enrichment

Message enrichment in an IoT hub refers to the process of enhancing or augmenting incoming messages from IoT devices with additional information or metadata before they are routed or processed further. This enrichment can include adding contextual data, transforming the message format, or enriching the message payload with additional attributes.

IoT Hub provides a feature called message enrichments that allows you to configure rules to enrich messages as they pass through the hub. These rules can be defined based on specific criteria or conditions, and they enable you to modify messages by adding, updating, or deleting message properties or inserting custom data.

Here are a few common scenarios where message enrichment can be useful:

• Adding metadata: You can enrich messages with additional metadata such as device properties, location information, or timestamp information. This metadata can provide context to the message and help in downstream...