index.md

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title	ThingsBoard Community Edition
description	ThingsBoard documentation - learn about the platform and get your IoT projects running on ThingsBoard

The ThingsBoard documentation can help you set up ThingsBoard, learn about the platform and get your IoT projects running on ThingsBoard.

What is ThingsBoard?

• Features
• Architecture

Getting started

Learn how to use ThingsBoard platform.

Installation

Learn how to install and upgrade platform.

FAQ

Get answers to the most common questions.

Video tutorials

Watch tutorials about platform features on YouTube.

Guides

Learn main ThingsBoard features.

API

Learn device connectivity and server-side platform specific API.

Features

Data visualization

Covers data visualization capabilities: Widgets, Dashboards, Dashboard states.

Telemetry

API for collection of time-series data and related use cases.

Attributes

Platform ability to assign custom key-value attributes to your entities (e.g configuration, data processing, visualization parameters).

Rule engine

Covers data processing & actions on incoming telemetry and events.

Entities and relations

Platform ability to model physical world objects (e.g. devices and assets) and relations between them.

Audit log

Tracking of user activity and API calls usage.

API Limits

Controlling API usage, by limiting number of requests from single host during single time unit.

RPC

API and widgets to push commands from your apps and dashboards to devices and vice versa.

Advanced filters

Filters over entity fields, attributes and latest telemetry.

Security

Contains description of available device authentication options.

Samples

Contains a list of hardware platform specific samples.