Real-time Anomaly Detection Pipeline with Azure Event Hubs

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To build a Real-time Anomaly Detection Pipeline with Azure Event Hubs, we will architect a system that collects, processes, and analyzes data in real-time. Azure Event Hubs is a highly scalable data streaming platform and event ingestion service, capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second. The pipeline typically involves the following components:

1. **Event Hubs**: An entry point for the data. It's responsible for receiving real-time data events.
2. **Stream Analytics Job**: Processes the data in real-time, checking for anomalies based on predefined queries or machine learning models.
3. **Event Hub Consumer**: The downstream service or application that consumes the processed data, might trigger alerts or integrate with other systems.

In the following Pulumi code, we'll create an Azure Event Hub and a Stream Analytics Job. The Stream Analytics job will be the core component which will have query logic to detect anomalies. The final part where alerts are triggered or data is consumed by other systems would depend on specific business logic and hence is not covered by this generic example.

Let's go through the code to set up the Event Hub and Stream Analytics for real-time anomaly detection:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_azure_native as azure_native

# Replace these variables with appropriate values
event_hubs_namespace_name = "myeventhubnamespace"
resource_group_name = "myresourcegroup"
event_hub_name = "myeventhub"
stream_analytics_job_name = "mystreamanalyticsjob"
location = "East US"  # Choose the appropriate Azure region

# Creating an Azure Resource Group
resource_group = azure_native.resources.ResourceGroup("resource_group",
                                                      resource_group_name=resource_group_name,
                                                      location=location)

# Creating an Event Hubs Namespace
event_hubs_namespace = azure_native.eventhub.Namespace("event_hubs_namespace",
                                                       resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                                                       namespace_name=event_hubs_namespace_name,
                                                       location=resource_group.location,
                                                       sku=azure_native.eventhub.SkuArgs(name="Standard"))

# Creating an Event Hub within the namespace
event_hub = azure_native.eventhub.EventHub("event_hub",
                                           resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                                           namespace_name=event_hubs_namespace.name,
                                           event_hub_name=event_hub_name,
                                           # Partition count and message retention can be adjusted based on the requirements
                                           partition_count=2,
                                           message_retention_in_days=1)

# Creating a Stream Analytics Job to process the data from Event Hub
stream_analytics_job = azure_native.streamanalytics.StreamingJob("stream_analytics_job",
                                                                 resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
                                                                 job_name=stream_analytics_job_name,
                                                                 location=resource_group.location,
                                                                 events_out_of_order_policy="Adjust",
                                                                 output_error_policy="Drop",
                                                                 # Here, you would define your transformation queries and other Stream Analytics settings
                                                                 transformation=azure_native.streamanalytics.TransformationArgs(
                                                                     name="Transformation",
                                                                     # The query to detect anomalies would be specified here
                                                                     query="SELECT * INTO Output FROM Input WHERE AnomalyDetectionFunction(Input) = 1"
                                                                 ),
                                                                 inputs=[azure_native.streamanalytics.InputArgs(
                                                                     name="Input",
                                                                     # Here we link the Stream Analytics Job to the Event Hub
                                                                     properties=azure_native.streamanalytics.EventHubStreamInputPropertiesArgs(
                                                                         eventhub_eventhubs_namespace=event_hubs_namespace.name,
                                                                         eventhub_name=event_hub.name,
                                                                         shared_access_policy_name="RootManageSharedAccessKey",
                                                                         shared_access_policy_key=event_hubs_namespace.default_primary_key,
                                                                     )
                                                                 )],
                                                                 # Output settings for the job would go here, such as an Event Hub, Service Bus Queue, Azure Function, etc.
                                                                 )

# Exporting the Event Hub primary connection string to access it from a consumer application
primary_connection_string = pulumi.Output.all(resource_group.name, event_hubs_namespace.name).apply(
    lambda args: azure_native.eventhub.list_namespace_keys(ListNamespaceKeysArgs(
        authorization_rule_name="RootManageSharedAccessKey",
        namespace_name=args[1],
        resource_group_name=args[0])).primary_connection_string)

pulumi.export("primaryConnectionString", primary_connection_string)
```

In this script:

- We create an Azure Resource Group to hold our resources.
- We set up an Azure Event Hubs Namespace, which is the container for the Event Hub.
- We create an Azure Event Hub, representing the data stream. Here you can adjust the partition count and message retention policies as needed.
- We create an Azure Stream Analytics Job, which will process the incoming data for anomalies. The job's input is linked to our Event Hub, and you would need to specify the correct anomaly detection queries in the Transformation query. The output of this job would typically go to another Event Hub, a Service Bus queue, an Azure Function, or any other consumer or storage system – this will have to be defined based on your requirements.

Please note that the actual anomaly detection logic (`AnomalyDetectionFunction(Input)`) will depend on your use case. Azure Stream Analytics has built-in functions for basic anomaly detection, or you can leverage Azure Machine Learning models for more complex scenarios.

After deploying this with Pulumi, the `primaryConnectionString` output will give you the connection string to access the Event Hub, allowing you to send data to your pipeline or to set up a consumer to process outputs of the Stream Analytics job.