Using Eventarc for external events?

[morrowalan1]

I'm looking at event driven architecture in GCP to integrate third party SaaS and home grown apps.  Eventarc looked like the service to use but seems like it's maybe not so mature for non-GCP providers and consumers.  Having to complete a form to request to add a provider is cumbersome - I haven't encountered this with APIs or with Pub/Sub (or any other services).  And I see there's now 2 different flavours - standard and advanced.  Is anyone using Eventarc for external events?

[shaaland]

You could consider using Application Integration for external events.  We have triggers for many SaaS apps as well as several message queuing services such as Kakfa, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, TIBCO EMS, as well as GCP's PubSub. This will be especially useful for events which require any kind of message enrichment or complex data mapping requirements as well. 

[AlexET]

Thanks @shaaland for sharing this!

Hey @morrowalan1, just following up—if you’d like to dive deeper into Application Integration and explore how it could fit your use case, feel free to reach out! We’d be happy to walk you through it and answer any questions.