airbyte/docs/integrations/destinations/azure-blob-storage.md

Azure Blob Storage

Overview

This destination writes data to Azure Blob Storage.

The Airbyte Azure Blob Storage destination allows you to sync data to Azure Blob Storage. Each stream is written to its own blob under the container, as <stream_namespace>/<stream_name>/yyyy_mm_dd_<unix_epoch>_<part_number>.<file_extension>.

Sync Mode

Feature	Support
Full Refresh Sync	✅
Incremental - Append Sync	✅
Incremental - Append + Deduped	❌

Configuration

Parameter	Type	Notes
Azure Blob Storage Endpoint Domain Name	string	This is Azure Blob Storage endpoint domain name. Leave default value (or leave it empty if run container from command line) to use Microsoft native one.
Azure Blob Storage Container Name	string	A name of the Azure Blob Storage container. If not exists - will be created automatically. If leave empty, then will be created automatically airbytecontainer+timestamp.
Azure Blob Storage Account Name	string	The account's name of the Azure Blob Storage.
Azure Blob Storage Account Key	string	Azure Blob Storage account key. If this is set, the Shared Access Signature, Azure Tenant ID, Azure Client ID, and Azure Client Secret fields must not be set. Example: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/0123456789+ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/0123456789%++sampleKey==.
Shared Access Signature	string	Azure Blob Storage shared access signature (SAS). If this is set, the Azure Blob Storage Account Key, Azure Tenant ID, Azure Client ID, and Azure Client Secret fields must not be set. Example: sv=2025-01-01&ss=b&srt=co&sp=abcdefghijk&se=2026-01-31T07:00:00Z&st=2025-01-31T20:30:29Z&spr=https&sig=YWJjZGVmZ2hpamthYmNkZWZnaGlqa2FiY2RlZmdoaWp%3D.
Azure Tenant ID	string	Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) tenant ID. Required for Entra ID authentication. If this is set, Azure Client ID and Azure Client Secret must also be set. Example: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012.
Azure Client ID	string	Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) client ID. Required for Entra ID authentication. If this is set, Azure Tenant ID and Azure Client Secret must also be set. Example: 87654321-4321-4321-4321-210987654321.
Azure Client Secret	string	Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) client secret. Required for Entra ID authentication. If this is set, Azure Tenant ID and Azure Client ID must also be set.
Azure Blob Storage Target Blob Size (MB)	integer	How large each blob should be, in megabytes. Example: 500. After a blob exceeds this size, the connector will start writing to a new blob, and increment the part number.
Format	object	Format specific configuration. See below for details.

Output Schema

CSV

Like most other Airbyte destination connectors, the output contains your data, along with some metadata fields. If you select the "root level flattening" option, your data will be promoted to additional columns; if you select "no flattening", your data will be left as a JSON blob inside the _airbyte_data column.

For example, given the following JSON object from a source:

{
  "user_id": 123,
  "name": {
    "first": "John",
    "last": "Doe"
  }
}

With no flattening, the output CSV is:

_airbyte_raw_id	_airbyte_extracted_at	_airbyte_generation_id	_airbyte_meta	_airbyte_data
26d73cde-7eb1-4e1e-b7db-a4c03b4cf206	1622135805000	11	{"changes":[], "sync_id": 10111 }	{ "user_id": 123, name: { "first": "John", "last": "Doe" } }

With root level flattening, the output CSV is:

_airbyte_raw_id	_airbyte_extracted_at	_airbyte_generation_id	_airbyte_meta	user_id	name.first	name.last
26d73cde-7eb1-4e1e-b7db-a4c03b4cf206	1622135805000	11	{"changes":[], "sync_id": 10111 }	123	John	Doe

JSON Lines (JSONL)

JSON Lines is a text format with one JSON per line. As with the CSV format, this connector will write your data along with some metadata fields. You can enable "root level flattening" to promote your data to the root of the JSON object, or use "no flattening" to leave your data inside the _airbyte_data object.

For example, given the following two JSON object from a source:

{
  "user_id": 123,
  "name": {
    "first": "John",
    "last": "Doe"
  }
}
{
  "user_id": 456,
  "name": {
    "first": "Jane",
    "last": "Roe"
  }
}

With no flattening, the output JSONL is:

{ "_airbyte_raw_id": "26d73cde-7eb1-4e1e-b7db-a4c03b4cf206", "_airbyte_extracted_at": "1622135805000", "_airbyte_generation_id": "11", "_airbyte_meta": { "changes": [], "sync_id": 10111 }, "_airbyte_data": { "user_id": 123, "name": { "first": "John", "last": "Doe" } } }
{ "_airbyte_ab_id": "0a61de1b-9cdd-4455-a739-93572c9a5f20", "_airbyte_extracted_at": "1631948170000", "_airbyte_generation_id": "12", "_airbyte_meta": { "changes": [], "sync_id": 10112 }, "_airbyte_data": { "user_id": 456, "name": { "first": "Jane", "last": "Roe" } } }

With root level flattening, the output JSONL is:

{ "_airbyte_raw_id": "26d73cde-7eb1-4e1e-b7db-a4c03b4cf206", "_airbyte_extracted_at": "1622135805000", "_airbyte_generation_id": "11", "_airbyte_meta": { "changes": [], "sync_id": 10111 }, "user_id": 123, "name": { "first": "John", "last": "Doe" } }
{ "_airbyte_ab_id": "0a61de1b-9cdd-4455-a739-93572c9a5f20", "_airbyte_extracted_at": "1631948170000", "_airbyte_generation_id": "12", "_airbyte_meta": { "changes": [], "sync_id": 10112 }, "user_id": 456, "name": { "first": "Jane", "last": "Roe" } }

Getting started

Requirements

1. Create an AzureBlobStorage account.
2. Check if it works under https://portal.azure.com/ -> "Storage explorer (preview)".

Setup guide

• Fill up AzureBlobStorage info
  • Azure Blob Storage Endpoint Domain Name
    • Leave default value (or leave it empty if run container from command line) to use Microsoft native one or use your own.
  • Azure Blob Storage Container Name
    • If not exists - will be created automatically. If leave empty, then will be created automatically airbytecontainer+timestamp..
  • Azure Blob Storage Account Name
    • See this on how to create an account.
  • Authentication - you must use exactly one of these:
    • Shared Access Signature (recommended)
      • See this for how to create an SAS.
    • Azure Entra ID (Service Principal)
      • Azure Tenant ID, Azure Client ID, and Azure Client Secret from an Azure service principal with appropriate permissions.
      • See this for how to create a service principal.
    • Azure Blob Storage Account Key
      • Corresponding key to the above user.
  • Format
    • Data format that will be use for a migrated data representation in blob.
• Make sure your user has access to Azure from the machine running Airbyte.
  • This depends on your networking setup.
  • The easiest way to verify if Airbyte is able to connect to your Azure blob storage container is via the check connection tool in the UI.

Changelog

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Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
1.1.4	2025-11-01	69127	Upgrade to Bulk CDK 0.1.61.
1.1.3	2025-10-21	67153	Implement new proto schema implementation
1.1.2	2025-10-05	67078	Remove memory limit for sync jobs to improve performance and resource utilization.
1.1.1	2025-09-10	66139	Fix inconsistent field name casing and improve tooltip clarity. Field names now use consistent title casing and tooltips reference exact field names.
1.1.0	2025-09-03	65933	Add support for Azure Entra ID (Service Principal) authentication. You can now authenticate using Azure AD tenant ID, client ID, and client secret.
1.0.4	2025-08-07	64556	Promoting release candidate 1.0.4-rc.1 to a main version.
1.0.4-rc.1	2025-08-05	59710	Release Azure blob destination on latest CDK
1.0.3	2025-05-07	59710	CDK backpressure bugfix
1.0.2	2025-04-14	57563	Fix signature spec example
1.0.1	2025-04-09	57541	Fix metadata to actually certify.
1.0.0	2025-04-03	56391	Bring into compliance with modern connector standards; certify connector.
0.2.5	2025-03-21	55906	Upgrade to airbyte/java-connector-base:2.0.1 to be M4 compatible.
0.2.4	2025-01-10	51507	Use a non root base image
0.2.3	2024-12-18	49910	Use a base image: airbyte/java-connector-base:1.0.0
0.2.2	2024-06-12	#38061	File Extensions added for the output files
0.2.1	2023-09-13	#30412	Switch noisy logging to debug
0.2.0	2023-01-18	#21467	Support spilling of objects exceeding configured size threshold
0.1.6	2022-08-08	#15318	Support per-stream state
0.1.5	2022-06-16	#13852	Updated stacktrace format for any trace message errors
0.1.4	2022-05-17	12820	Improved 'check' operation performance
0.1.3	2022-02-14	10256	Add -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError JVM option
0.1.2	2022-01-20	#9682	Each data synchronization for each stream is written to a new blob to the folder with stream name.
0.1.1	2021-12-29	#9190	Added BufferedOutputStream wrapper to blob output stream to improve performance and fix issues with 50,000 block limit. Also disabled autoflush on PrintWriter.
0.1.0	2021-08-30	#5332	Initial release with JSONL and CSV output.