Azure Blob Storage - New Blob trigger (real-time)

This trigger picks up new Blobs that are created in Azure Blob Storage immediately. Events are picked up via a webhook sent from Azure. Workato listens to these webhooks and processes them in real-time. To do this, you will need to set up the this webhook event in your Azure portal.

How to setup Azure webhook event

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First, configure your Workato connection and select New Blob Trigger. This will provide a Webhook URL. This Webhook URL is specific to this recipe and you will need to copy this webhook URL for use later in Azure.

Save the webhook URL generated in the trigger

2

Next, head over to your Azure storage account. Navigate to Events

Navigate to events in your Azure Blob Storage Account

3

Create a new Event Subscription.

Create a new event subscription

4

Fill up the event subscription form.

• Set Event Type to Blob created.
• Set Subscriber Endpoint to the Webhook URL provided in the trigger.

Fill up the form to create a new event subscription

5

Navigate back to your Workato Recipe and select Test recipe. This is required for Workato to send the validation response to Azure for this webhook URL.

Test your webhook trigger

6

Lastly, on your Azure instance. Select Create to finish setting up your new Azure event subscription.

Create a new event subscription

Output

Field	Description
Topic	The topic of the event subscription in Azure.
Subject	The subject of the event subscription in Azure
Event type	The event type
ID	The unique ID of the event
Container	The container the event occurred in
Blob Name	The name of the blob which caused the event
ID	The unique ID of the event
Data	Contains information about the blob that was created.
Data version	The data version of the blob. This increases when there are multiple blob snapshots.
Metadata version	The metadata version of the blob
Event time	The exact time of the event