Documentation Getting started

CloudMQTT are managed Mosquitto servers in the cloud. Mosquitto implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol, MQTT, which provides lightweight methods of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe message queueing model.

MQTT is the machine-to-machine protocol of the future. It is ideal for the “Internet of Things” world of connected devices. Its minimal design makes it perfect for built-in systems, mobile phones and other memory and bandwidth sensitive applications.

Message queues provide an asynchronous communications protocol, the sender and receiver of the message do not need to interact with the message queue at the same time. Messages placed onto the queue are stored until the recipient retrieves them or until the messages times out. MQTT and Mosquitto are for good use by bandwidth sensitive applications.

CloudMQTT let you focus on the application instead of spending time on scaling the broker or patching the platform.

Create a CloudMQTT instance

Create an account and login to the control panel and press + Create New Instance.

To get started you need to sign up for a customer plan. What plan you require depends on your use case. We offer four different plans for different needs. One shared plan intended for development or small hobby projects. Three dedicated plans suited for production environments.

Pick a name and plan for your instance. You also have the option of tagging your instance. Click Select Region to choose data center.

Select what data center and region your instance should be in. Click Review to check your configuration.

cloudmqtt create new instance data center

The instance is immediately provisioned after sign up and you can view the instance details, such as connection information, on the details page. You are sometimes forced to format a connection URL while connecting via client libraries, it should look like mqtt://user:password@server:port .