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Recipe: from MQTT to InfluxDB via Node-Red

Introduction

Getting data produced by IoT sensors into a database is practically a mandatory step before effective visualisation (eg dashboards).

This recipe shows you how to get an MQTT payload into an InfluxDB database using three Node-Red nodes. It makes the following assumptions:

• A client device of some kind publishing data to a topic via the MQTT protocol;
• Mosquitto (MQTT broker);