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Add a real-time weather source in Real-Time hub (Preview)

This article describes how to add a real-time weather event source in Fabric Real-Time hub.

The real-time weather connector allows you to ingest live weather data from a selected location into Eventstream. It provides real-time weather conditions such as precipitation, temperature, and wind for a specified set of coordinates. This data is updated every minute to ensure timely insights.

Weather data is powered by the Azure Maps Weather service. The cost of using Azure Maps is included in the connector's capacity consumption, so there's no need to set up a separate Azure Maps account or service within your Azure subscription. To learn more about Azure Maps, refer to What is Azure Maps?.

Prerequisites

  • A workspace with Fabric capacity or Trial license mode.
  • Access to the workspace with Contributor or higher workspace roles.
  • If you don't have an eventstream, follow the guide to create an eventstream.

In addition, the following tenant switches must be enabled from the Admin portal:

Screenshot that shows weather tenant setting.

Data sources page

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Fabric.

  2. If you see Power BI at the bottom-left of the page, switch to the Fabric workload by selecting Power BI and then by selecting Fabric.

    Screenshot that shows how to switch to the Fabric workload.

  3. Select Real-Time on the left navigation bar.

    Screenshot that shows how to launch Connect to data source experience.

  4. The Streaming data page opens by default. Click on the Add data button to get to the Data sources page.

    Screenshot that shows the Data sources page in the Real-Time hub.

    You can also get to the Data sources page directly by selecting the Add data option in the left navigation bar.

    Screenshot that shows the Connect data source button.

Select Real-time weather as data source type

On the Data sources page, search for Real-time weather, and select Connect on the Real-time weather tile.

Screenshot that shows the Data sources page with Connect on the Real-time weather tile.

Add a Real-time weather source

  1. Select a location on the map or search for a location to retrieve real-time weather data.

    Screenshot that shows selecting location in the Connection setting page.

  2. (Optional) Enter a Location name to identify this location’s weather data in your stream. This name appears in the data payload.

    Screenshot that shows entering an optional location name.

  3. Select Next and review the configuration summary.

    Screenshot that shows the Review + connect page for the real-time weather source.

Important

By using this connector, you acknowledge and agree that:

  • Your use of this connector is subject to the applicable Azure Maps Product Terms and may only be used within Microsoft Fabric only.
  • Weather data may not be downloaded, exported, or streamed outside of Fabric.

For more details, see Azure Maps Product Terms

View data stream details

  1. On the Review + connect page, if you select Open eventstream, the wizard opens the eventstream that it created for you with the selected weather source. To close the wizard, select Close at the bottom of the page.
  2. You should see the stream in the Recent streaming data section of the Real-Time hub home page. For detailed steps, see View details of data streams in Fabric Real-Time hub.

To learn about consuming data streams, see the following articles: