Tool Relations

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Node-RED can send processed data to ThingsBoard via MQTT or REST API. Some deployments use Node-RED for complex flow logic and protocol translation at the edge, feeding results into ThingsBoard for centralized dashboards and device management.

ThingsBoard's MQTT transport layer can connect to Mosquitto brokers, or ThingsBoard can act as its own MQTT broker (via TBMQ). Devices publishing to a Mosquitto broker can be ingested into ThingsBoard using the IoT Gateway's MQTT connector.

ThingsBoard can push telemetry data to Grafana via PostgreSQL or Cassandra as a shared data source. Some teams run Grafana alongside ThingsBoard for more advanced visualization, though ThingsBoard's built-in dashboards cover most monitoring use cases.