HiveMQ Reviews & Product Details

The clustering capability is what sets HiveMQ apart from everything else we tested before committing. Scaling broker nodes horizontally without any message loss or connection disruption during peak device activity is something we genuinely took for granted until we tried replicating it on an alternative platform during an evaluation. The extension SDK has also given our team the ability to build custom authentication and data transformation logic directly into the broker layer without compromising the core stability we depend on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing conversation with the sales team takes longer than it should for teams that just want to get started quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The broker stability at high message volumes is where HiveMQ genuinely earns its reputation. We push millions of messages daily across connected devices and the platform has not flinched once. Clustering was straightforward to configure and the reliability we have seen in production has given our engineering team a lot of confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing structure can feel steep for teams that are still scaling up. Getting full access to enterprise features requires a commitment that smaller engineering teams might hesitate over. The documentation is solid but some of the more advanced configuration guides assume a level of familiarity that newer IoT developers may not have yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate HiveMQ for its data replication through cluster management, which ensures that no messages are lost and everything is processed according to the quality of service set. It's built by extremely smart people who understand MQTT 3 and 5 features, making it extremely easy to implement and maintain. The system is robust and has a customer-first mindset, which is truly commendable. HiveMQ does an exceptional job at managing data for several hundred thousand actively connected devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish HiveMQ created a 'HiveMQ MQTT Client' for C#/.NET. They have support only for Java which limits flexibility. Also, it would be nice if HiveMQ supported SYS topics for debugging and development with their professional and enterprise licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HiveMQ is very reliable and scalable. Its broker efficiently handles large volumes of MQTT messages with minimal latency. The platform’s monitoring and management tools make it easy to track device connections and troubleshoot issues quickly.

The most helpful aspect is its ability to handle large-scale deployments while maintaining performance. HiveMQ’s clustering and high-availability features ensure minimal downtime, which is critical for real-time IoT applications. Integration with existing systems is straightforward, and the documentation is thorough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main downside is that some advanced features require familiarity with MQTT protocols and may have a learning curve for new users. Also, certain configurations could be simplified for faster setup, especially in smaller teams without dedicated infrastructure expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The team is helpful and always responsive whenever we have issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much that I dislike about these guys, they have worked with us to get our kinks ironed out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an elegant solution to the business need of having a message broker technology. It facilitates our need to have 5 9's of uptime as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since it is so stable it is very easy to let the version lapse and then it is a bit of a technological struggle to get the out of support version up to current. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that HiveMQ can process the huge number of messages sent by our sensor network without even the slightest slowdown. It is important to have the capability to receive reliably data on thousands of remote environmental monitors. It also simplifies the establishment of secure connections of new devices to an amazing extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have discovered that it is a trial and error process at first to get the QoS levels than the tuning of certain types of devices. Secondly, documentation is excellent, but there are occasions when I would have liked more code snippets to be readily available to less well-known integration patterns in our particular manufacturing process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before we switched to HiveMQ we had a constant nightmare during daily peak hours when hundreds of thousands of vehicles in our fleet would all simultaneously reconnect. Our old broker would just choke which leads to huge data backlogs and lost real time visibility. With HiveMQ's masterless clustering architecture it's just a night and day difference. We can see millions of concurrent connections and the smart message buffering means when a vehicle drops off and reconnects moments later, we don't lose that critical engine or location telemetry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Logging and observability should be improved when you're troubleshooting a specific client. The Control Center UI is great for a high level overview of the cluster health and message throughput but diving into the logs to trace a particular client ID's connection history can be a bit of a manual work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease in which HiveMQ can be used to support an extremely broad and disparate group of IoT devices including simple sensors all the way up to complex actuators is what has been transformative in our business. We specifically like that its topic architecture is flexible enough to split the city data into according to individual department at a granular level like /traffic/sensors or /waste/bins and there is no performance penalty incurred. Our cloud data lakes work in conjunction with each other fairly seamlessly, so the data placement we need for analytics is very easy to achieve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The core functionality is superb, but reporting features of overall message throughput, client connections are sometimes less intuitive. A considerable amount of time is wasted in digging logs to find particular performance metrics instead of those being right out in the open. There are also some advanced configuration options which we found out to be slightly more in-depth to learn than we expected, and you will have to experiment with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HiveMQ Cloud service has been a literal savior to our small start-up. We particularly love the ease with which it is to manage client certificates which enable a secure connection to the device. The in-built monitoring dashboards are excellent as well. They allowed us to identify possible problems and bottlenecks in our IoT data streams in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like the documentation to have more applicable examples to particular industrial protocols. Some of the personal authentication options required time to set up and the original cost schedule was a bit disorienting. It could have been made clearer in the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.