{"active":true,"blog_title":"Announcing the General Availability of Enhanced Eventstream and Connector Sources","blog_url":"https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-enhanced-eventstream-and-connector-sources","feature_description":"This feature enables customers to develop or re-use their own Kafka connectors or open-source Kafka connectors on Fabric when there are no pre-built streaming connectors available.Personas* ISVs / Partners -- Building connectors for their products to integrate with Fabric* Enterprise developers -- Teams with proprietary or niche data sources not covered by built-in connectors* Data engineers -- Needing to bring custom/legacy sources into real-time pipelines without waiting for first-party supportTop User Benefits* Bring any source -- Connect to any data system with a standard Kafka Connect plugin, eliminating dependency on first-party connector availability* Zero infrastructure management -- Fabric manages the Kafka Connect runtime, offset tracking, scaling, and monitoring* Familiar development model -- Leverages the industry-standard Kafka Connect API; existing open-source connectors can be repackaged and uploaded directly* Opens the door to an RTI connector ecosystem -- Enables customers, partners, and ISVs to contribute connectors, growing a community-driven catalog of sources beyond what the first-party team can deliver alone* AI-assisted creation -- AI agents can scaffold and build connector plugins, dramatically reducing development timeHow It Helps OKRs* Connector coverage / source breadth -- Unblocks the long tail of sources without engineering investment per connector* Platform stickiness / adoption -- Customers invest in building on Fabric, deepening commitment to RTI* Partner ecosystem growth -- Enables ISVs to create connectors, expanding the Fabric ecosystem* Time-to-value -- Customers self-serve instead of waiting on the roadmap, accelerating onboarding**Competitive DifferentiatorManaged Kafka Connect as a platform primitive -- Unlike competitors that require customers to stand up and operate their own Kafka Connect clusters, Fabric provides a fully managed runtime with built-in converters, offset management, and monitoring -- all integrated into the Real-Time Hub discovery experience. Combined with AI-assisted plugin creation, this lowers the barrier from "weeks of infrastructure + development" to "hours with an AI agent and a ZIP upload."","feature_name":"Eventstream supports customers to upload own connector","last_modified":"2026-06-16","product_id":"58cb90aa-4203-ef11-a1fd-000d3a36eea4","product_name":"Real-Time Intelligence","release_date":"Q3 2026","release_item_id":"60246c0e-762f-f011-8c4d-000d3a34671f","release_status":"Planned","release_type":"Public preview"}