Azure Notification Hub like simple sender - azure

I have some question about Azure notification hub.
It is possible to send push message to gcm or apns without registration devices? I would like only to pass e.g. gcm model like:
{
"to": "registraionId",
"data": {
"title": "Some title",
"message": "Some message"
}
}
I saw that exists defined REST https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn223273.aspx but for me it not working, I suppose that flow should look like [make installation] -> [make registration] -> [send message] is it correct? I also tried to send message by visual studio and azure portal.
Is it possible to send messages without registration etc. ?
I will be very gratefull for any examples :)

I solved my problem, of course exists Rest api https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt608572.aspx which is used to sending direct messages to devices without registrations.

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The Azure Alerts using webhook to Slack is not working

I'm using Azure Alerts to use webhooks. I added the webhook in the action group. The URL I used is the one from Slack.
I also added a Notification Type Email. The notification email gets triggered but I am not receiving any message in the Slack channel.
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Here the more information about it:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/alerts/alerts-common-schema
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...
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Then in the scheduled query rules alert:
...
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Using Azure Notification Hub, who is reporting "no matching targets"?

When sending notifications to FCM, either from my Azure Service via Azure Notification Hub or it's test send, I am not getting any error messages, but the notification is not delivered to the specified device. The hub's test send reports "Message was successfully sent, but there were no matching targets." However, from the FCM portal test send it is, so I know the device is configured correctly.
Is it FCM reporting "no matching targets" or the hub?
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Using VS, I see in the hub registrations for APNS; I don't see any for FCM, even though I have seen registration events for my pushes in the hub's Overview Monitoring.
An example of the latest notice semantics:
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Webhook incoming with event subscription create loop

I am using a web service api to receive message from a slack channel (event subscription) and the same web service api to send message (Incoming webhook) to the user on the same slack channel.
But when I send a message, this same message is send back to my api by the slack event subscription. That create an infinite loop.
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This is normal behavior of Slack and can not be changed by any configuration. When you subscribe to message events you will receive events for all messages, including the ones from your own app.
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Here are some examples how messages look like and how messages from real users are different then message from Slack apps:
Example message from a real user:
{
"type": "message",
"user": "U12345467",
"text": "Good read for some of guys",
"ts": "1531745292.000021"
}
Example message from a Slack app or bot
{
"text": "Hey guys",
"bot_id": "B12345678",
"type": "message",
"subtype": "bot_message",
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}
See also this answer.

Azure Event Grid to Azure Relay, Hybrid Connection

I'm testing out Azure Event Grid with a Azure Relay, Hybrid Connection handler. It's not working for me.
I can see messages being published to Azure Event Grid. So far so good.
I've set up a subscription to the Event Grid topic and I've configured it to send events to a handler specified as an Azure Relay with a Hybrid Connection endpoint.
Looking at the metrics for the subscription with the Hybrid Connection handler, I see the following telemetri:
Matched Events
Delivery Failed
Expired Events
… but I see no Delivery Succeeded event???
Also, the Hybrid Connection listener (just a simple Console App) connected to the Azure Relay receives nothing. I've tested the listener by sending some test messages directly to the Relay and that works fine.
The logical conclusion, is that the events published to the Event Grid are not being delivered probably to the Relay Hybrid Connection handler. But why? There are not that many parameters, so I not sure what I'm doing wrong. It seems rather straight forward to configure this.
I'm a the point where I'm beginning to believe that the Event Grid / Hybrid Connection scenario is currently not working. It is in preview after all, so that could explain it.
I know that there is not much to go on here, but I was hoping that others might have some experience with this?
The issue still remains. The issues seems to be related to the formating of the json being passed from the Event Grid Subscription to the Hybrid Connect.
Update
I finally had some time to look more carefully into this.
I set up the Event Grid Tester and every time the Event Grid recieves a message I can see this error in the log:
HybridConnection: Message processing failed - Unable to cast object of type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JValue' to type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject'.
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POST https://{myNamespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{myHybridConnectionName}
headers:
content-type: application/json
x-ms-version: 2015-07-08
Aeg-Event-Type: Notification
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body:
{
"id": "123456",
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"eventType": "recordInserted",
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"subject": "/myapp/vehicles/motorcycles",
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}
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using Microsoft.Azure.Relay;
// ...
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Error: The Push Notification System handle for the registration is invalid.
Template:
String WindowsTemplateStr = #"<toast><visual><binding template=""ToastImageAndText03""><image id=""1"" src=""https://"" alt=""Customer""/><text id=""1"">$(headlineText)</text><text id=""2"">$(bodyText)</text></binding></visual></toast>";
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registration = await hubClient.CreateWindowsTemplateRegistrationAsync(userDeviceInformation.ChannelUri, Templates.WindowsNotificationTemplate,
new string[]
{
userDeviceInformation.InstallationId,
userDeviceInformation.UserName
});
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notification.Add("src", ImageUrl);
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notification.Add("bodyText", String.Format("Message {0}", message));
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I can't seem to find what is causing this behavior.
Any ideas ?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.servicebus.notifications.notificationhubclient.enabletestsend.aspx

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