Azure Event Hub Capture feature

There is one feature of Azure Event Hub that requires an individual section itself to describe it in depth. It is capture, a functionality which allows you to automatically store events using a predefined storage solution (such as Azure Storage or Azure Data Lake) and process it further. Unfortunately, this particular feature is often misused as its use cases are not so obvious; additionally, the way it works might sometimes be unclear.

How Azure Event Hub Capture works

In common use cases for Event Hub, you need a producer and a consumer to fetch data and process it. Let's consider the following scenario:

In this scenario, we have two consumers:

• Consumer 1 for some generic processing...