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thingsboard/thingsboard

Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard · homepage · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

99/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 99
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 27
  • age_days: 3562
  • days_rel: 6
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 24

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

22316 stars · 6420 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device management, telemetry data collection, processing, and visualization. It supports standard IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, LwM2M, SNMP), a rule engine for alarms and data processing, flexible dashboards, and cloud or on-premises deployment.

Use cases

  • manage and monitor a fleet of IoT devices
  • build real-time dashboards for sensor telemetry
  • collect and store device telemetry data at scale
  • set up alarms and notifications on device data thresholds
  • connect devices over MQTT, CoAP, or HTTP
  • build an industrial SCADA-style monitoring solution
  • process device data with rule chains and trigger actions
  • self-host an IoT platform for customers with multi-tenancy

When to choose

  • you need an end-to-end IoT platform with device management, data collection, and visualization out of the box
  • you want protocol support for MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, LwM2M, or SNMP without building custom ingestion
  • you need dashboards, alarms, and rule engines without writing much code
  • you want a scalable, multi-tenant platform deployable on-premises or in the cloud

When to avoid

  • you only need lightweight MQTT brokering or simple device-to-cloud messaging
  • you want to embed IoT logic directly into your own application code rather than use a platform
  • you need a fully managed service and don't want to self-host (consider ThingsBoard Cloud instead)
  • your use case is general web analytics or business intelligence rather than device telemetry

Facets

application · maturity stable

iot data-visualization analytics monitoring message-queue http-server api-framework workflow-automation alerting iot data-visualization analytics big-data self-hosted microservices cloud-computing windows cloud self-hosted jvm iot-platform device-management mqtt coap lwm2m snmp rule-engine telemetry scada dashboards edge-computing multi-tenant dashboard automation linux macos docker kubernetes web-server

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
thingsboard/thingsboardmain99

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