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HiveMQ Unveils Distributed Tracing Extension for Real-Time IoT Observability

HiveMQ Unveils Distributed Tracing Extension for Real-Time IoT Observability Image Credit: HiveMQ

HiveMQ, a global leader in enterprise MQTT solutions, recently unveiled the HiveMQ Distributed Tracing Extension, a new feature aimed at providing users with IoT observability by making it possible to trace and debug MQTT data streams between IoT devices and the cloud.

With the new extension, HiveMQ is the first MQTT broker to add OpenTelemetry support to provide complete transparency for every publish message that uses the HiveMQ MQTT broker. OpenTelemetry is an open standard for instrumentation that allows for interoperability across all services so organizations can achieve visibility over their entire system.

HiveMQ offers first-class integration into a broad range of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace and Honeycomb, or open source alternatives like Grafana Tempo. Unlike other popular APM tools that do not provide observability into MQTT data, HiveMQ's Distributed Tracing Extension is able to make the most of expensive APM investments and shorten the time required to discover and resolve issues.

Christian Götz, CEO and Co-Founder, HiveMQ
We’re the first MQTT broker to enable true IoT observability so customers can trace MQTT data and gather diagnostic information in real-time rather than after the fact. IoT observability is key as it allows customers to quickly identify latency bottlenecks or reasons for failure in critical transactions and decrease the time spent resolving these issues. In a complex architecture, customers often don’t know where to start when they experience a problem. Say opening the car door with a mobile application is taking 5 to 10 seconds instead of 1 second. A detailed look at where the message request traveled and how long it took at each step makes it easy to identify the root cause of latency so it can be fixed.

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