Notification Hubs
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Add support for Azure Notification Hubs to push messages to web browsers
Azure Notification Hubs should be able to deliver messages to users via web browsers.
This should be done through lightweight javascript. The script should be cross browser compatible with desktop, mobile and legacy browsers.
Basically this would replace the need for hosting SignalR unless you're building something like a chatroom.
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Add webhooks to Azure Notification Hubs
Add the ability for Notification hubs to call an endpoint when an event has occurred on a push notification (push delivered, failed ...etc)
103 votesFor the notification related events, we can only report if the message was successfully sent to the respective provider’s PNS. The actual delivery of the message is handled by the PNS and we don’t have any direct visibility in this. Where we can add some hooks are instances where maybe the registration expires etc. Let me know if there are any other places you will find this useful.
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Create flutter package for NotificationHub
Please consider adding a flutter package to easily add support for notification hub in flutter apps.
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Add ability to move NotificationHub from one namespace to another within the same subscription id
According to this answer in the forums:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/08a3ffc8-dbf3-4212-8533-d639371e2016/moving-notification-hub-from-one-namespaces-to-another?forum=notificationhubs&prof=requiredIt requires contacting support in order to move notification hub between namespaces (sometimes one app get's bigger audience and it's necessary to move it to different pricing namespace e.g. from Basic to Standard)
69 votesWith the new billing model – http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/notification-hubs/ this will be a valid request. We will look into this.
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Get Installation and Delete Installation By Tags, By PushChannel
I think azure must provide api to get installation record by Tags and PushChannel.
Also Delete api by tags and PushChannel
59 votesWe want to provide get installations by tags, and I’d love to understand more about your scenarios around delete installations by tags and get/delete by push channel if you don’t mind sending me an email at yuaxu@microsoft.com. Thanks!
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Bulk tagging of installations
When we need to add a tag for a set of installations, we currently need to perform a request to Azure Notification Hubs for each installation.
This results in very poor performance, ruining one of the main advantages of Notification Hubs: massive scalability.
It is to be expected that many many uses of tags will involve applying tags on installations dynamically in response to business events in the app. Since this may affect as many users as we would later want to send notifications to, it follows that we should have an efficient way to apply tags to many installations…
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Support iOS VoIP and Standard notifications in one hub
My app need standard, silent and VoIP notifications. If I want to support them, I need 2 notification hubs just because of iOS.
58 votesWe’re hoping to expand support for push types in a future release. We’ll add this to the feature list we’re considering
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Add support for Critical Alerts on APNS
Starting with iOS 12, iphone apps and APNS can send critical alerts 1. Critical alerts play a sound regardless of whether or not Do Not Disturb is enabled or the ringer switch is off.
As documented on the APNS remote payload documentation 2 the sound key in the notification payload can be used as a dictionary and can contain the keys "critical", "name" and "volume" to send a critical alert remote notification. An example payload would look like:
{
"aps":{
…"alert": {
"action-loc-key":"View",
"body":"Test Critical Notification",
"launch-image": "default",
"title": "Test Critical Notification"
},
"badge":1,
"sound":{
"critical":1,
"sound":"alarm.aif",
"volume":1
}50 votes -
cli support notification hub
Support creating and managing Notification Hubs from the CLI. Not everybody uses powershell...
Please make Azure-CLI a first class citizen to manage resources...
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Add the ability to read certificate (APNS) from Key Vaults
Instead of uploading a certificate to the notification hub (Scattering certificate management across many resources). Having certificates consolidated in a Key Vault makes it easier to manage certificates and makes expiring certificates less common.
We rely heavily on Key Vaults, for managing our domains SSL certificates, to Azure Service Fabric Cluster Certificate and others. Having the APNs Certificate there provides a one stop shop for all certificates on the portal.
42 votesWe agree that this would be useful, but we’ve not heard a lot of customers ask for it.
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Allow Global Templates
As I understand it, templates are only held at a specific user registration level.
For our (enterprise) app this makes life difficult, as I now need to register a large number of templates to a large number of registrations, and worse keep this in sync as templates are changed.It would work better in our scenario to have 'global' templates ready in the hub (referenced by name), then send a message to whatever tags, specifying the template desired.
Under this scenario we would handle any personalisation via the back end app - using either tags or other means (I'm either…
37 votesWe are working on a design for global templates.
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Notification hub - Better way of analytic for push notifications send using Azure
Notification hub currently provides a way to send PN across all plateforms but the analytic provided is not very usable and real time.
34 votesWe are looking into E2E telemetry and providing better analytics for our customers.
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Portal: Show Active Devices, total registrations count
They only exposed in old portam, but both two values are super important to manage tier. Please make them display in new portal.
18 votesThank you for the suggestion. This is currently under review.
/Shantaram – Program Manager
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Make Notification Hub as simple as Firebase from google
I think you know that we have products addressing the same problem as we are. but they do it simpler than we are. For example Firebase code required from dev- much less than Notification Hub.
https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/faq"You no longer have to write your own registration or subscription retry logic. " - why we can't do something simple like that!
Recently when we discussed with customer usage of notification hub and I can't explain why they should use it instead of firebase after feature comparison
16 votesWe agree and want to make things as easy as possible for you.
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APN Tokens should be hidden (password field) in the portal?
From what I've read the token in the Apple (APNS) section of the notification hub should be the contents of the p8 private key file.
I pasted this in and it is working fine however the full private key is there in plain text for anyone to see.
Did i use the wrong key / token here or should this be somehow hidden to stop someone copying it and then using it elsewhere?
16 votesYou are correct, anyone with access to the notification hub can view the notification credentials for all notification providers. This is how the underlying API is built and while we could use a password field to hide the value in the UI, the value is still available in the browser. Additionally, it is common for customers to have trouble inputting these values and it’s important for them to be able to verify the value when troubleshooting. It’s important to control access to your notification hubs to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the stored credentials.”
From our side, we are planning to refresh this UI and we could consider hiding by default with a checkbox to show the value. Technically it’s not secure, but at least hides the value from casual access.
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Need HA or DR feature for Azure Notification Hubs
I am opening this feedback on behalf of our customer.
Our customer would like to find a way to have multiple Notification Hub instances in separate regions to shield them from the outages.
They currently rely on Notification Hub for their service to provide mission-critical notifications.
Are there any plans or road-map for High Availability or Disaster recovery features or anything similar for Notification hubs.14 votesNothing planned today, but it is something we would like to see added.
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Azure Notification hub Monitoring via Azure Portal and from Azure Log Analytics
Generally we have an option to monitor Azure PaaS components via Azure portal (ie, Dashboards, alert notify) and from OMS portal.
But Azure Notification hub doesn't have capability in ARM portal for Monitoring it. But it as in Classic Portal.
Please advice whether we can monitor Notification hub from ARM Portal and from OMS? Is it available in ARM?
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Add integration with unity apps
I'd like to use Notification Hubs with FCM and APNs to push notifications to a unity app. It would be useful to have a tutorial for this and/or a unity plugin which does the job.
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Check the total active register device and total push in namespace level
Our customer notification hub namespace have lots of hubs under it. Every time, customer need to calculate the total cost. Please add such metrics on namespace level.
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Send push even if APNS certificate expired error occurred
Today, our service had a problem that Template push notification was not working.
The push service in server did not throw exception so only NH debug mode helped to investigate the error. The cause was "Apns certificate expired"
It seems that NH validates all push notification providers' availability in template mode. It could make serious service blockage as today.
What I suggest is;
1. Send push to other validated notification provider
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2. Show error message when such error is occurred. In Monitor tab, there was no error count and only "0 message sent" is displayed in chart.8 votes
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