Mastering Azure Serverless Computing

Events

An event represents something that happens inside an Azure service (called the source) that communicates the event externally and that can be intercepted and managed by another Azure service (called the destination).

An event is composed of a set of information coded in a JSON format with a well-defined schema.

Azure Event Grid supports two different schemas for the events it can manage:

• Azure event schema: This is a schema defined by Azure, and its format is like the following:

[    {        "topic": string,        "subject": string,        "id": string,        "eventType": string,        "eventTime": string,        "data":{            object-unique-to-each-publisher        },        "dataVersion": string,        "metadataVersion": string    }]

Events have a common set of properties that identify each event ...