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Date Published
Author
Jason Myers
Word count
603
Language
English
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None

Summary

InfluxDB has introduced a new feature called Native MQTT, which allows users to collect time-series data from cloud-based pub/sub services without the need for custom code or additional hosting services. This feature is designed to accelerate collecting from MQTT brokers and enables businesses and applications to track real-time and historical change, contributing to forecasting and prediction. Native MQTT eliminates the need for orchestration of additional technology layers or infrastructure management, allowing users to focus on using their collected data. The feature is easy to set up and requires only three basic configuration steps, including specifying broker details, topic names, and parsing rules. It also supports dynamic subscription to topics using wildcards and allows for unstructured data payloads to be parsed using JSON path expressions and regular expressions.