Azure Time Series Insights Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Legacy names Azure Time Series Insights, Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Analytics
End-to-end streaming data ingestion, Eventhouse KQL time-series analytics, real-time dashboarding, and automated event-driven alerting workload in Microsoft Fabric.
Naming timeline
- Azure Time Series Insights
Turnkey IoT time-series exploration service on Microsoft.TimeSeriesInsights/environments (retired across July 2024–March 2025).
- Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Analytics
Streaming and KQL analytics workload introduced as part of Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft Fabric Real-Time IntelligenceCurrent name
Real-Time Analytics expanded and rebranded to Real-Time Intelligence with Real-Time Hub, Eventhouse, and Activator.
What replaced Azure Time Series Insights?
Azure Time Series Insights has been superseded by Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, with the latest change on 21 May 2024 (Microsoft Build Expansion & Rebrand). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Analytics. End-to-end streaming data ingestion, Eventhouse KQL time-series analytics, real-time dashboarding, and automated event-driven alerting workload in Microsoft Fabric. The underlying legacy API or CLI surface is deprecated, so a technical migration is required.
Also known as
- Azure Time Series Insights Gen1 & Gen2
- Fabric Eventhouse
- Fabric Real-Time Hub
- Fabric Activator
Technical identifiers
Legacy identifiers deprecated. The underlying API or CLI surface for the legacy name is officially deprecated, so this change requires a technical migration rather than a label update.
| ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*) | Microsoft.Fabric/capacities Microsoft.Kusto/clusters Microsoft.TimeSeriesInsights/environments (retired) |
|---|---|
| Azure CLI (az) / PowerShell | az fabric az kusto az tsi (retired) |
| Entra ID / Azure RBAC Roles | Fabric Administrator Time Series Insights Contributor (retired) |
| Terraform Resources (azurerm_*) | azurerm_fabric_capacity azurerm_kusto_cluster azurerm_iot_time_series_insights_gen2_environment (retired) |
Microsoft.TimeSeriesInsights/environments (az tsi, azurerm_iot_time_series_insights_*) is retired; workloads migrate to Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence or Azure Data Explorer.
Notes & disambiguation
- Azure Time Series Insights (Gen1 GA in April 2017, Gen2 GA in July 2020) was retired across 2024–March 31, 2025, with Microsoft directing IoT and time-series workloads to Azure Data Explorer and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence.
- Within Microsoft Fabric, the streaming and KQL workload launched as 'Synapse Real-Time Analytics' in May 2023 and was rebranded and expanded into 'Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence' at Microsoft Build in May 2024 (incorporating Real-Time Hub, Eventstreams, Eventhouse, and Activator).
- The legacy Azure Time Series Insights ARM resource provider (Microsoft.TimeSeriesInsights/environments) and Terraform resource (azurerm_iot_time_series_insights_gen2_environment) are retired (`deprecated: true`).
Sources & official documentation
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