How much compute and storage is included?

The entry level is a dedicated size XS instance with 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe SSD for €99.90; it suits lightweight applications as well as test and development environments. Size S with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD costs €129.90. We check which size ThingsBoard needs in production before provisioning. Size M (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD) costs an extra €29.90 excl. VAT, L (8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD) an extra €89.90 excl. VAT and XL (16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD) an extra €199.90 excl. VAT, each per month. Additional storage costs €4.99 excl. VAT per 50 GB and month.

Is the number of users limited?

No. WZ-IT does not limit the number of users. How many users can work smoothly at the same time depends on usage and the chosen instance size XS to XL.

What is the contract term?

ThingsBoard Hosting can be cancelled monthly, with no minimum term and 30 days' notice to the end of the month.

Where is the data stored?

Germany, Switzerland and Austria are available at the same prices. All three locations are data centres without US clouds that are ISO 27001 certified within the scope of the respective data centre operator; in Germany we additionally operate with a German provider whose data centres are BSI C5 attested. A confidentiality agreement under Section 203 German Criminal Code (StGB) is also available for app hosting on request, at the German location only; the separate Section 203 Managed Cloud for professional-secrecy holders is available in Germany only.

Can the application be hosted in Switzerland or Austria?

Yes. Besides Germany, Switzerland and Austria are available as locations, at the same prices in euros. The operator of the data centre in Switzerland is certified to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 and sources electricity from renewable sources; the data centre in Austria is ISO 27001 certified. State the preferred location in your request; it is recorded in the proposal.

How quickly is ThingsBoard ready to use?

We typically provide a production instance within a few business days after signing. For a trial, we set up a test instance, usually on the next business day; it runs free of charge for 7 days and without payment details.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes. One .de domain is included with every hosting plan. Alternatively, connect your own domain or subdomain with a CNAME record.

ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It supports industry-standard protocols like MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and offers both cloud and on-premises deployments.

What is ThingsBoard used for?

ThingsBoard is used for Smart Energy, Environment Monitoring, Industrial IoT (SCADA), Smart Metering, Smart Farming, Fleet Tracking and many other IoT applications.

Which protocols does ThingsBoard support?

ThingsBoard supports MQTT, CoAP and HTTP for device connectivity. Additionally, there is support for LwM2M and other protocols through extensions.

What is the Rule Engine?

The Rule Engine enables processing of incoming device data with flexible rule chains. You can transform data, trigger alarms, forward data and define complex logic with a visual drag-and-drop designer.

What are ThingsBoard Widgets?

ThingsBoard provides over 600 customizable widgets for data visualization: line charts, bar charts, maps, digital and analog gauges, tables and much more. You can also create custom widgets with the built-in editor.

How does Multi-Tenancy work?

ThingsBoard supports multi-tenancy. The viable number of tenants, devices and telemetry events depends on the edition, data model, architecture and workload and is validated through sizing and load testing for production environments.

What is SCADA in ThingsBoard?

ThingsBoard provides SCADA functionality (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) for real-time industrial process monitoring and control. With SCADA symbols, you can create complete workflows on dashboards.

What integrations are available?

ThingsBoard integrates with AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub, IBM Watson, OPC-UA, Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST APIs and many other systems. There is also a REST API and WebSocket API for custom integrations.

Can ThingsBoard scale?

Yes, ThingsBoard can scale horizontally in microservices mode. Additional instances can increase capacity, but scaling behaviour and any required maintenance window depend on the database, queue, workload profile and deployment architecture and are tested in advance.

How are devices managed?

ThingsBoard provides comprehensive APIs for registering and managing devices. You can monitor client-side attributes, provision server-side attributes and send RPC commands between server and devices.

What data can ThingsBoard collect?

ThingsBoard can collect and store telemetry data (time series), attributes (key-value pairs) and events from any sensors, connected devices or applications.

How do dashboards work?

Dashboards are customizable visualizations with widgets. You can create multiple dashboards, share them with customers, define access control and add interactive features with the toolbar API.

Yes, ThingsBoard offers comprehensive alarm management. You can create alarms based on telemetry data, attribute changes or device inactivity and send them via email, SMS, Slack or custom integrations.

Cloud vs. On-Premise?

ThingsBoard supports both cloud and on-premises deployments. You can run it on your own servers, in private data centers or in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner).

Which database does ThingsBoard use?

ThingsBoard supports PostgreSQL, Cassandra and TimescaleDB for data storage. You can choose where to store main entities and where to store telemetry data (SQL, NoSQL or Hybrid).

Microservices vs. Monolith?

ThingsBoard supports both monolithic deployments (for smaller environments) and microservices architecture for high availability and horizontal scalability.

What are the system requirements?

For small installations: 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM. For medium installations: 4 CPU cores, 8GB RAM. Production environments with many devices require more resources and ideally a cluster configuration.

Is ThingsBoard GDPR-compliant?

ThingsBoard is open-source and can be operated in a privacy-focused manner. At WZ-IT, we host ThingsBoard on privacy-focused servers in Germany with appropriate technical and organizational measures.

Which authentication methods?

ThingsBoard supports username/password and additional authentication methods. OAuth2, LDAP/AD, SAML and two-factor authentication depend on version and edition; we verify the required scope before implementation.

Yes, ThingsBoard supports transport encryption for MQTT and HTTP(s). You can configure TLS/SSL certificates and encrypt all communication between devices and server.

How is data protected?

ThingsBoard provides building blocks for device authentication, credential management and transport encryption. Roles, permissions and audit capabilities vary by edition and are specified in the target architecture.

What does WZ-IT offer?

We provide installation, architecture, managed hosting, monitoring, backups, maintenance and integration for ThingsBoard. Support windows and human response times follow the selected service level; required ThingsBoard licences are quoted separately.

We offer Essential, Business, Priority, Production and Critical with clear service windows and contractually agreed response targets. 24/7 monitoring is separate from the support window; a specific availability commitment applies only when explicitly agreed.

ThingsBoard Hosting in Germany

WZ-IT runs ThingsBoard as a dedicated instance in data centres in Germany, Switzerland or Austria, with updates, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring and a personal contact. On request, we also install ThingsBoard in your cloud or on premises.

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What is ThingsBoard?

ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. The platform enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports both cloud and on-premises deployments.

ThingsBoard combines device management, dashboards, a rule engine and interfaces for IoT projects. We design scaling, fault tolerance, data retention and recovery around the load profile, edition and availability target.

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Features

Device & Asset Management
Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities securely using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between devices, assets, customers or any other entities.
Real-Time Dashboards
Visualize your data with over 600 customizable widgets and flexible dashboards. Create custom visualizations and share dashboards with your customers.
IoT Rule Engine
Process incoming device data with flexible rule chains based on entity attributes or message content. Define your application logic with the drag-and-drop designer.
Multi-Tenancy
Tenants, customers, devices and administrators can be separated structurally. Sustainable scale depends on the edition, data model and cluster architecture.
SCADA System
Monitor and control your industrial processes in real time with SCADA. Use SCADA symbols on dashboards for full flexibility in designing and monitoring workflows.
Security & Encryption
Supports transport encryption for both MQTT and HTTP(s) protocols. Provides device authentication and device credentials management for secure IoT communication.

Licence

Licensing notice

From version 4.4.0, ThingsBoard is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1. Free production use requires a licence key issued by the vendor and applies only within the Additional Use Grant, for commercial use for example up to 100 devices on one server; beyond that a commercial licence is required (https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard/blob/master/LICENSE). WZ-IT operates ThingsBoard as a dedicated instance per customer; required licences are quoted separately. On request, we support you in obtaining any required vendor licence.

Infrastructure, integration and operations

ThingsBoard as part of your infrastructure

We do more than provide an application. WZ-IT designs the technical architecture, integrates network and identity, operates the agreed scope and develops integrations when the standard product is not enough.

Architecture and migration

Sizing, target environment, data transfer, cutover and recovery are resolved before production operations.

On-Premise
In your data center: Installation on bare-metal, VM or Docker · Integration with existing Active Directory/LDAP
Installation in your cloud
In your own cloud account, for example with AWS, Azure, GCP or Hetzner · Terraform/IaC setup (optional) · Kubernetes or Docker Compose · Capacity and scaling design
Enterprise Setup
Advanced architecture after technical and licence assessment: HA and recovery design where supported by the application and edition · Logging according to feature set and edition · Custom security policies

Network and identity

SSO, secure access, internal systems and existing security components are integrated appropriately.

VPN Access
WireGuard, NetBird, Tailscale, Headscale, OpenVPN, Cloudflare Tunnel · Easy client setup for all devices
SSO Integration
Directly or through an upstream identity layer
Multi-Factor Auth
Depends on application, edition and identity provider
Firewall & Hardening
Fail2Ban, Rate Limiting, IP Whitelisting

Monitoring and service level

Updates, backups, technical monitoring and response paths follow a transparent operational scope.

24/7 proactive monitoring
Updates and patches
Regular updates, CVE monitoring and prioritised patches for critical vulnerabilities
Daily backup with 7-day retention
Personal technical contact

Integration and development

APIs, automation and custom extensions can be delivered beyond basic deployment.

REST API and device connectivity
We control telemetry, attributes, RPC commands and entities through the REST API (Swagger documentation). Devices connect via MQTT, HTTP or CoAP, and device profiles bundle transport, rule chain and alarm rules.
Rule engine and alarm rules
Rule chains filter, transform and enrich measurements, create alarms and forward data via REST, MQTT or Kafka. Alarm rules with severity, acknowledgement, assignment and propagation trigger notifications by email, SMS or Slack.
Dashboards and widgets
Dashboards with maps, time series, tables and controls per customer or site. Where the widget library falls short, we build custom widgets through the widget API.

Full-service installation with no hidden costs

What the ThingsBoard setup includes

Complete installation & configuration
SSL certificate & reverse proxy setup
Backup strategy & disaster recovery
Performance optimization & tuning
Security hardening following OWASP
Monitoring & logging setup
Documentation & best practices
Administrator training (remote)
30 days email support included
Dedicated contact person
Optional integration: LDAP/AD, SSO, MFA
Update strategy & patch management setup

The exact scope depends on the application, edition, infrastructure and criticality. Vendor licences and non-standard components are quoted separately.

Konkrete Use Cases

ThingsBoard Development & Integration

ThingsBoard collects telemetry from devices. The value comes from rule engine, alarm rules and dashboards that fit your process and connect to existing systems.

Alarming and escalation

Problem

Threshold violations are reported too late or to the wrong place, and alarms are not followed up.

Lösung

Alarm rules in the device profile with severities, plus a rule chain that escalates after a deadline and sends messages by email, Slack or to your ticketing system.

Data to ERP and data warehouse

Problem

Measurements exist only in ThingsBoard, while maintenance, ERP and analytics need them in their own systems.

Lösung

Rule chains transform and aggregate telemetry and write it to target systems via REST, MQTT or Kafka, for example for maintenance orders or reports.

Dashboards per customer or site

Problem

Several customers or sites should see only their own devices and values, without maintaining every dashboard by hand.

Lösung

Dashboards per customer or site with assigned entities and suitable widgets, with custom widgets for key figures and control where needed.

Managed Hosting & Operations

How much does ThingsBoard hosting cost?

Compute, applications, storage and response are shown separately. You can see what ongoing operations include and which requirements need a technical assessment.

Starter workload from€99.90/ month · cancel monthly

ThingsBoard hosting in Germany: GDPR-compliant operations

One managed standard application included
.de domain included or your own domain or subdomain via CNAME
Choice of location: Germany (ISO 27001, BSI C5), Switzerland (ISO 27001) or Austria (ISO 27001), each within the scope of the data centre operator
Confidentiality agreement under Section 203 German Criminal Code (StGB) available on request (location Germany)
99.9 % standard availability per month
Regular updates, CVE monitoring and prioritised patches for critical vulnerabilities
Central logs with immutable retention
Daily backup with 7-day retention
5 TB outbound traffic per workload and month
24/7 proactive monitoring
Five service levels, 24/7 P1 response with Production or Critical
Personal technical contact

Instance sizes and monthly prices

XS · 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe SSD: €99.90 in total
S · 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD: €129.90 in total
M · 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD: €159.80 in total
L · 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD: €219.80 in total
XL · 16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe SSD: €329.80 in total
Additional storage per 50 GB: +€4.99

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Straightforward provisioning within a few business days

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Other options

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We set up a test instance for you, usually on the next business day. No payment details required. After seven days it is deleted unless you continue.

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Installation on Your Infrastructure

Installation on your own infrastructure · On-premise or in your cloud · Control over data location and access · Custom configuration · Complete documentation · Initial setup & configuration · Optional support and maintenance contract

Price on request, plus optional support & maintenanceRequest a proposal →On-premises option

Run ThingsBoard on hardware at your organisation

As an alternative to managed hosting in the data centre, WZ-IT provides the hardware, configures ThingsBoard, and handles hardening, monitoring, updates, backup and technical support. Access can be limited to the internal network or enabled through VPN and existing identities.

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Target architecture

Integrate ThingsBoard into your infrastructure with clear controls

IoT platforms connect devices, gateways, message transport, time-series data and business systems through controlled network and data paths.

Devices, gateways and sites

Sensors, equipment and edge components send telemetry and receive approved control information.

Secure access

TLS, firewall rules, reverse proxies or private network paths are designed around the platform's exposure.

Identity and permissions

Local accounts, SSO, directories, service accounts and emergency access are connected through clear roles.

ThingsBoard platform

Device management, rules, processing and tenants are operated for the fleet and data volume.

Brokers and protocols

MQTT, LoRaWAN, HTTP or further protocols with governed device identities.

Telemetry and storage

Time series, retention, aggregation, capacity and recovery.

Dashboards and business systems

Visualisation, alerting, APIs and integration into operational processes.

The diagram is a resilient target model. Its implementation depends on edition, data flows, load, availability objectives and existing infrastructure.

Role in the overall system

Related services for ThingsBoard

This page covers installation and the agreed platform operations for ThingsBoard. Custom code, the access layer and special confidentiality requirements remain clearly separated responsibilities that can be added when needed.

Maintain the application

Support custom code and integrations

Keep custom extensions, interfaces and dependencies controlled, updated and supportable.

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Connect users, sites and systems

Add identity-based access and private network paths as a separate operational layer.

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Assess Section 203 requirements separately

For professional secrecy holders, define contractual, access and infrastructure requirements in a dedicated operating model.

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Three relevant adjacent paths instead of a long list of further products.

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Client feedback and projects worldwide

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Networking & Provisioning

WZ-IT moved our studio infrastructure from decentralised individual devices to a central platform: every site is securely connected via VPN, new devices are onboarded automatically and an entire site is provisioned from a template, without manual steps on location. What impressed me most is the breadth and depth of their knowledge: Timo and Robin are not a typical IT provider who sets up a server and leaves. The two of them think their way into highly complex infrastructure and software topics, work through every requirement we put in front of them, and build networking, provisioning and operations so that everything fits together in the end. WZ-IT is an excellent partner for complex software, network and architecture projects.

Steve KirchnerManaging Director, nextGYM GmbH

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International

Built in Germany's Ruhr Valley. Running worldwide.

WZ-IT designs, develops and operates infrastructure and software for clients in Germany and internationally. We deliver projects remotely and continue supporting them in ongoing operations after go-live.

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Managed Hosting & Operations

Enquire about hosting and operations for ThingsBoard

Briefly describe the current state and objective for ThingsBoard. We assess infrastructure, integration, and ongoing operations.

Straight with Timo and Robin - no sales team, no pitch
A professional assessment of your situation
Concrete next steps for infrastructure, software or AI

The conversation is free and non-binding.

WZ-IT's advice on our Azure migration was technically sound and completely non-binding right from the intro call - we took away a great deal.

Jakob ÖschlbergerInno7 GmbH

Email[email protected]Phone+49 2922 875068

WZ-IT's advice on our Azure migration was technically sound and completely non-binding right from the intro call - we took away a great deal.

Jakob ÖschlbergerInno7 GmbH

ThingsBoard Hosting in Germany

Device & Asset Management

Real-Time Dashboards

IoT Rule Engine

Multi-Tenancy

SCADA System

Security & Encryption

Licensing notice

On-Premise

Installation in your cloud

Enterprise Setup

VPN Access

SSO Integration

Multi-Factor Auth

Firewall & Hardening

24/7 proactive monitoring

Updates and patches

Daily backup with 7-day retention

Personal technical contact

REST API and device connectivity

Rule engine and alarm rules

Dashboards and widgets

What the ThingsBoard setup includes

Alarming and escalation

Data to ERP and data warehouse

Dashboards per customer or site

ThingsBoard hosting in Germany: GDPR-compliant operations

Instance sizes and monthly prices

Request a test instance

Installation on Your Infrastructure

Run ThingsBoard on hardware at your organisation

Devices, gateways and sites

Secure access

Identity and permissions

ThingsBoard platform

Brokers and protocols

Telemetry and storage

Dashboards and business systems

Support custom code and integrations

Connect users, sites and systems

Assess Section 203 requirements separately

Pricing and contract

How much does ThingsBoard hosting cost?+

How much compute and storage is included?+

Is the number of users limited?+

What is the contract term?+

Where is the data stored?+

Can the application be hosted in Switzerland or Austria?+

How quickly is ThingsBoard ready to use?+

Can I use my own domain?+

Basics

What is ThingsBoard?+

What is ThingsBoard used for?+

Which protocols does ThingsBoard support?+

What is the Rule Engine?+

Features & Functions

What are ThingsBoard Widgets?+

How does Multi-Tenancy work?+

What is SCADA in ThingsBoard?+

What integrations are available?+

Can ThingsBoard scale?+

Devices & Data

How are devices managed?+

What data can ThingsBoard collect?+

How do dashboards work?+

Can I set up alarms?+

Infrastructure & Deployment

Cloud vs. On-Premise?+

Which database does ThingsBoard use?+

Microservices vs. Monolith?+

What are the system requirements?+

Security & Compliance

Is ThingsBoard GDPR-compliant?+

Which authentication methods?+

TLS/SSL encryption?+

How is data protected?+

WZ-IT Services

What does WZ-IT offer?+

Support & SLA?+

Tutorials & guides