Welcome to our Blog

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Christian Meinerding, May 27, 2019

A New Name for dc-square

Category: HiveMQ

Our company dc-square becomes HiveMQ

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Dominik Obermaier, Apr 16, 2019

HiveMQ is Now Open Source - With a Community Edition

Category: HiveMQ

Something great happened: HiveMQ is now Open Source and we are excited to announce the release of the HiveMQ Community Edition (CE).

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Dominik Obermaier and Ian Skerrett, Apr 16, 2019

HiveMQ and Apache Kafka - Streaming IoT Data and MQTT Messages

Category: HiveMQ HiveMQ Extension for Kafka

Introducing a secure, scalable and resilient way of integrating Kafka with your HiveMQ cluster

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Ian Skerrett, Mar 12, 2019

HiveMQ and MQTT: Real World Examples and Customer Stories

Category: HiveMQ

HiveMQ has over 100 customers in production. We are excited to share with your some of our customers experience creating innovative new connected products and IoT solutions.

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Dominik Obermaier, Mar 12, 2019

MQTT 5 - Now an Approved OASIS Standard

Category: MQTT 5

This week OASIS announced the final approval of MQTT 5 as an OASIS standard. HiveMQ has been an active participant in the MQTT 5 standardization process so we are very pleased to see the process come to a conclusion.

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Clive Jevons, Feb 25, 2019

HiveMQ MQTT Client for Java

Category: MQTT MQTT Client MQTT Client Library

The HiveMQ MQTT Client for Java was created in order to provide a fast, low-overhead, high-throughput and modern MQTT library for Java by building on modern frameworks like Netty for handling networking and RxJava for handling the asynchronous streaming of messages. It was created with backend applications in mind, but can be used in any Java based project.

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HiveMQ Team, Nov 26, 2018

Two Industry Awards for HiveMQ: German Accelerator and Deloitte

Category: HiveMQ

HiveMQ was awarded with Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award 2018 and was accepted in German Accelerator Tech.

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Florian Raschbichler, Nov 21, 2018

HiveMQ: New on Docker Hub

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

Announcing the introduction of a continuously updated HiveMQ Docker repository on Docker Hub that can help you streamline your development and deployment efforts.

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Florian Raschbichler, Nov 21, 2018

How to run a HiveMQ cluster with Docker and Kubernetes

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

Run a HiveMQ cluster inside a Kubenertes namespace, utilizing the DNS service for cluster discovery

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Florian Raschbichler, Aug 2, 2018

A Quick Guide to HiveMQ and Syslog

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

Logging is a key ingredient in the diagnosing, monitoring and trouble shooting of applications. Logging lets you see what your application is actually doing and helps you debug unwanted behavior.

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Florian Raschbichler, Jun 25, 2018

HiveMQ - Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Category: HiveMQ Third-Party

A guide to setting up Prometheus for gathering and displaying HiveMQ metrics

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HiveMQ Team, Jan 8, 2018

MQTT 5 Vs. MQTT 3 – MQTT 5 Essentials Part 2

Category: MQTT 5 Essentials MQTT 5

MQTT 5 Vs. MQTT 3 – Discover what differentiates MQTT 5 from MQTT 3.1.1

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HiveMQ Team, Jan 25, 2017

HiveMQ - AWS Cloud Watch Plugin

Category: HiveMQ AWS Third Party

Amazon offers their own monitoring system AWS CloudWatch for applications running on the Amazon Web Services. HiveMQ is now able to integrate directly with AWS CloudWatch with the free off-the-shelf plugin.

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HiveMQ Team, Oct 6, 2016

Creating highly available and ultra-scalable MQTT clusters

Category: Clustering MQTT

MQTT servers are a critical part of a messaging infrastructure. For high availability and scalability, MQTT broker clusters are required.

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HiveMQ Team, Sep 22, 2016

HiveMQ Plugins: Client Status and Retained Messages Query Plugin

Category: HiveMQ

Our friends at ART+COM released their HiveMQ plugins to the public. They are available on Github and are useful for many MQTT deployments.

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HiveMQ Team, Sep 12, 2016

HiveMQ - Influxdb Monitoring Plugin

Category: HiveMQ

Monitoring a MQTT system is very important. Read about the HiveMQ InfluxDB plugin that integrates with the time-series database for metrics.

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workswithweb , Aug 8, 2016

MQTTBox - MQTT Toolbox by HiveMQ

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

MQTTBox is a helper program to develop and load test MQTT based clients, brokers, devices, cloud and apps.

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HiveMQ Team, May 17, 2016

Your MQTT Applications: Are they resilient enough?

Category: HiveMQ

Let's face it: Despite the best intentions and hard work: Software can fail. Are your MQTT Applications resilient enough?

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HiveMQ Team, May 2, 2016

HiveMQ Blog - Restful HTTP APIs with HiveMQ

Category: HiveMQ

Learn how to integrate HTTP APIs with the HiveMQ MQTT broker

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HiveMQ Team, Apr 25, 2016

Load Balancing With Shared Subscriptions - MQTT Client

Category: HiveMQ MQTT

Sometimes plain Publish Subscribe isn't enough and some kind of client load balancing is desired. This is where Shared Subscriptions excel.

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HiveMQ Team, Apr 12, 2016

Deploying HiveMQ Cluster With Docker

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

This post shows how HiveMQ can be used with Docker to create a maintainable and scalable HiveMQ cluster with a minimal configuration effort.

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HiveMQ Team, Apr 4, 2016

Deploying HiveMQ With Docker

Category: HiveMQ Third Party

This post shows how HiveMQ can be used with Docker for creating maintainable, scalable and easy-to-use MQTT server deployments.

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HiveMQ Team, Mar 29, 2016

SYS-Topics: Why you shouldn’t use SYS-Topics for Monitoring

Category: MQTT

This blog post discusses the use of SYS-Topics for monitoring and explains when to use and when NOT to use SYS-Topics.

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HiveMQ Team, Mar 21, 2016

HiveMQ - TLS and MQTT: How is the performance affected?

Category: MQTT Iot Security

Learn how much resources are needed for MQTT and SSL in this benchmark and get rid of the significant overhead TLS adds.

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Sathya Vikram, Mar 7, 2016

MQTT Client Chrome App - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

With the MQTT Client Chrome app, you can use all the great features of HiveMQ in a browser. This OS-agnostic, web-based debugging tool for MQTT can test multiple MQTT broker connectivity in a browser.

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Sandro Kock, Mar 2, 2016

MQTTLens - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

MQTTLens is a Polymer based MQTT utility for the Chrome browser.

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Christoph Krey, Feb 22, 2016

MQTT Inspector - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

MQTTInspector is based on MQTT-Client-Framework, and it is a monitoring tool to connect to an MQTT broker or subscribe to a number of MQTT topics for debugging purposes.

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Jens Deters, Feb 9, 2016

MQTT.fx Extras - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

MQTT.fx aims to be a quick and an easy-to-use desktop tool for MQTT debugging and testing.

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Jens Deters, Feb 3, 2016

MQTT.fx - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

MQTT.fx aims to be an easy-to-use desktop tool for [MQTT](/mqtt-essentials/) debugging and testing.

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Kamil Baczkowicz, Jan 25, 2016

MQTT Spy Advanced - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

Learn the advanced features of the GUI-based mqtt-spy and the headless mqtt-spy-daemon.

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Kamil Baczkowicz, Jan 18, 2016

mqtt-spy-daemon - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

mqtt-spy-daemon is an open source command line utility for publishing and monitoring activity on MQTT topics.

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Kamil Baczkowicz, Jan 11, 2016

mqtt-spy - HiveMQ MQTT Toolbox

Category: MQTT Toolbox MQTT

mqtt-spy is probably one of the most advanced open source utilities / GUIs for publishing and monitoring activity on MQTT topics.

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HiveMQ Team, Jan 7, 2016

HiveMQ Plugins: Spring

Category: HiveMQ MQTT

Spring is a well known Java Framework usable within HiveMQ' s extensible plugin system. Here is a short guide for you.

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David Garske, Dec 21, 2015

wolfMQTT - MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia

Category: MQTT MQTT Client MQTT Client Library

The wolfMQTT library is a client implementation of the MQTT written in C for embedded use. It supports SSL/TLS via the wolfSSL library.

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Sandro Kock, Dec 2, 2015

Paho Android Service - MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia

Category: MQTT MQTT Client MQTT Client Library

Learn everything about the Paho Android Service, which is an interface to the Paho Java MQTT Client library for the Android Platform.

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James Sutton, Nov 16, 2015

Paho JavaScript - MQTT Client Library Encyclopedia

Category: MQTT MQTT Client MQTT Client Library

The Paho JavaScript client is a browser based library that takes advantage of WebSockets to connect to an MQTT Broker.