Connect
Connect is the data streaming layer of the HiveMQ Platform. In Connect, you bring your HiveMQ brokers and HiveMQ Edge instances into the platform, start your data flow, and manage your network from one place.
Connect lays the foundation for all other platform layers. Until your brokers and devices stream data through the platform, you cannot contextualize, analyze, or act on that data.
What You Can Do In Connect
In the HiveMQ Platform, you use Connect to complete the following tasks:
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Deploy new infrastructure: Deploy a HiveMQ Enterprise MQTT Broker from HiveMQ software, deploy a HiveMQ Cloud cluster, or create a HiveMQ Edge instance.
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Connect existing infrastructure: Register a broker or edge instance that you already run, so that the platform can manage it.
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Connect your devices: Configure your brokers so that devices can connect and stream data into them.
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License a broker:
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Generate a new HiveMQ Lab license to quickly connect a new broker and explore the full capacity of the HiveMQ Platform, including Data Intelligence.
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Purchase a paid license (or view your sales-led licenses) to ensure your brokers are deployed with sufficient entitlements.
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View your network: Check the status of your infrastructure or follow guided flows to add more infrastructure.
How Instances Reach the Platform
| Read this section before you deploy. It explains why a deployed broker does not always appear in Connect. |
The platform lists an instance only after it can associate the instance with your account. A running broker that never reports to the platform remains invisible to Connect.
To bring an instance into the platform, you must complete two basic steps:
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Deploy a broker or edge instance, or choose one that you already run.
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Connect the HiveMQ broker or HiveMQ Edge instance to the platform with a license key or connection string so that it reports to the platform.
As soon as the platform detects a HiveMQ broker or HiveMQ Edge instance, a Network list appears on the Connect page. When the Network list is in an empty state, the Connect page gives you a prompt to get you started.