Capturing and delivering data using eventstreams

In this section, you will create an eventstream, which is designed to capture events from a variety of sources such as Azure Event Hubs or Kafka clients. There are built-in sample datasets such as the New York City taxi trips and the focus of this chapter, stock ticker data.

To get started, follow these steps:

1. Return to the workspace item list by clicking on the workspace name in the left-hand navigation bar.
2. Select New | Eventstream in the top-left corner of the screen.
3. In the New Eventstream dialog box, enter StockMarket for Name and select Create.
4. Click on the New source dropdown from the ribbon and select Sample data:

Figure 5.4 – The New source menu in the eventstream editor

5. Enter SRC_StockMarket in the Source name box.
6. Select Stock Market from the Sample data drop-down menu.
7. Click on Add.
8. From the ribbon, select New destination | KQL Database.
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