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Microsoft Azure Event Grid

byMicrosoft
in Event Brokers
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft Azure Event Grid

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Azure Event Grid?

Microsoft Azure Event Grid is a software that enables event-based architectures by facilitating communication between applications and services using events. The software supports reliable event delivery, filtering, and routing, allowing developers to manage event-driven workflows across cloud and on-premises environments. By integrating with Azure services and custom applications, Azure Event Grid helps automate responses to system changes, data updates, or custom business events. The software addresses the business problem of decoupling event producers and consumers, thereby improving scalability and responsiveness of distributed systems through centralized event management.

Microsoft Azure Event Grid Pricing

Microsoft Azure Event Grid software uses a consumption-based pricing model where charges are based on the number of operations processed. The software distinguishes between different types of operations such as event ingress, advanced matches, and delivery attempts with separate costs applied to each. There may be additional charges for features such as premium capabilities or higher volume usage tiers.

Overall experience with Microsoft Azure Event Grid

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
50M - 250M USD, Energy and Utilities
FAVORABLE

“Navigating the Azure Event Grid: Integrations, Security, and Limitations”

4.0
Oct 30, 2024
Azure Event Grid is an integral part of our event-driven architecture, providing reliable, low-latency event processing for real-time applications. The seamless integration with Azure services is easy to set up, and its scalability easily supports our high demands.Security features include Azure AD and RBAC to ensure data protection. The pricing model is affordable and offers the convenience of paying per event. while monitoring tools can be developed, Event grid is the best choice for a robust and secure workflow in the Azure ecosystem
Global Systems Architect
500M - 1B USD, Consumer Goods
CRITICAL

“Azure Resources Review”

3.0
Jul 6, 2022
The implementation was easy but some of the regions are not able to supply the resources that are requrired and I need to open a ticket to get that increased each time.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Microsoft Azure Event Grid Likes & Dislikes

Like

What I like most about Azure Event Grid is its integration with the Azure ecosystem. which makes it very easy to connect to other azure services like operations, logic apps, and storage. This community connection, combined with high performance and low latency, allows us to launch events instantly and move to intensive work.Additionally the pay-per-event rate remains affordable by paying for actual usage, which is ideal for flexible demand

Like

Easy of use and reliability.

Like

It supports server-less architecture application in the cloud. It allows ops automation which simplified many processes in my organization. Our team was able to build more reliable cloud based applications.

Dislike

The main disadvantage of Azure Event Grid is that the monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities within its portal are limited. while it is possible to manage events securely, it can be difficult to analyse issues or track specific events without a deep understanding. improved traditional analytics and more granular decision making while enhancing the debugging experience. Additionally, broader integration with non-azure services will make it more versatile across multiple cloud environments

Dislike

Cost.

Dislike

I think this product is very expensive. It is complex to understand the overall customization. This product needs to provide have a more user friendly experience.

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Microsoft Azure Event Grid Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(56 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
48%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Navigating the Azure Event Grid: Integrations, Security, and Limitations

    4.0
    Oct 30, 2024
    Azure Event Grid is an integral part of our event-driven architecture, providing reliable, low-latency event processing for real-time applications. The seamless integration with Azure services is easy to set up, and its scalability easily supports our high demands.Security features include Azure AD and RBAC to ensure data protection. The pricing model is affordable and offers the convenience of paying per event. while monitoring tools can be developed, Event grid is the best choice for a robust and secure workflow in the Azure ecosystem
  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    10B+ USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Innovative Microsoft product

    4.0
    Aug 8, 2022
    It is a unique product in the market which supports so many softwares. I think it is a great feature create events through which applications can talk with each other. It empowers developer to create better products.
  • IT Operations Director
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Good feature to implement actions based on custom events

    4.0
    Jul 16, 2022
    The product helped me dealing with most of the data related problems. We used it while migrating to cloud, within Microsoft Cloud Data Management
  • SECURITY ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    it has incredible level of security, high performance

    5.0
    Jul 29, 2022
    It reduce lot of administrative task ,save type-high speed transfer message,
  • CTO
    <50M USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Creating connectivity for a SaaS application

    4.0
    Jul 7, 2022
    As we deploy using the Azure Resource Manager model, the Azure Event Grid gives us great options to loosely couple a myriad of related applications and services
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