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Version: 0.13.1

MQTT topics

This document lists the MQTT topics that are supported by the thin-edge.io.

Thin Edge JSON MQTT Topics​

To send the Thin Edge JSON measurements to a supported IoT cloud, the device should publish a message to the measurements topic. Internally the tedge-mapper will consume the measurements from this topic, translates and send them to the cloud that the device has been connected to by the tedge connect command.

Cumulocity MQTT Topics​

The topics follow the below format <protocol>/<direction><type>[/<template>][/<child id>]

ProtocolDirectionType
s = standardu = upstreams = static (built-in)
t = transientd = downstreamc = custom (device-defined)
e = errord = default (defined in connect)
t = template
cr = credentials

SmartREST2.0 topics​

All Cumulocity topics have been prefixed by c8y/.

  • Creating template topics c8y/s/dt c8y/s/ut/#

  • Static templates topics c8y/s/us c8y/t/us c8y/q/us c8y/c/us c8y/s/ds

  • Debug topics c8y/s/e

  • Custom template topics c8y/s/uc/# c8y/t/uc/# c8y/q/uc/# c8y/c/uc/# c8y/s/dc/#

C8Y JSON topics​

c8y/measurement/measurements/create c8y/error

You can find more information about Cumulocity topics Here

Azure MQTT Topics​

MQTT clients on Thin Edge device must use the below topics to communicate with the Azure cloud. The Azure topics are prefixed by az/.

  • az/messages/events/ - Use this topic to send the messages from device to cloud. The messages are forwarded to the Azure topic named devices/{device_id}/messages/events/ where device_id is the Thin Edge device id.

  • az/messages/devicebound/# - Use this topic to subscribe for the messages that were sent from cloud to device. Any message published by Azure on one the subtopics of devices/{device_id}/messages/devicebound/# is republished here.

AWS MQTT Topics​

MQTT clients on Thin Edge device must use the below topics to communicate with the AWS cloud. The AWS topics are prefixed by aws/.

  • aws/td/# - Use this topic to send the messages from device to cloud. The messages are forwarded to the AWS topic named thinedge/{device_id}/td where {device_id} is the Thin Edge device id.

  • aws/cmd/# - Use this topic to subscribe for the messages that were sent from cloud to device. Any message published by AWS on one the subtopics of thinedge/{device_id}/cmd/# is republished here.

  • aws/shadow/# Use this topic to interact with unnamed and named shadows of the device. It's mapped to $aws/things/{device_id}/shadow.

Collectd topics​

When the device monitoring feature is enabled, monitoring metrics are emitted by collectd on a hierarchy of MQTT topics.

  • collectd/$HOSTNAME/# - All the metrics collected on the device (which hostname is $HOSTNAME).
  • collectd/$HOSTNAME/$PLUGIN/# - All the metrics collected by a given collectd plugin, named $PLUGIN.
  • collectd/$HOSTNAME/$PLUGIN/$METRIC - The topic for a given metric, named $METRIC. All the measurements are published as a pair of a Unix timestamp in milliseconds and a numeric value in the format $TIMESTAMP:$VALUE. For example, 1623155717:98.6.

The collectd-mapper daemon process ingests these measurements and emits translated messages to the measurements topic.

  • This process groups the atomic measurements that have been received during the same time-window (currently 200 ms)
  • and produces a single thin-edge-json for the whole group of measurements.