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 best thing about this is its reliability and scalability for handling MQTT messaging with low latency. The security features and easy integration with cloud platforms make our life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some advanced features require additional configuration, which can make the initial setup more complex. 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.

It helps us excel at delivering stable, scalable, and secure messaging infrastructure for large-scale systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plugin development is very hard to understand and can be quite tricky. For small projects and small companies, it often feels like overkill. 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.

HiveMQ really excels at the intermittent device connections. We regularly deploy remote sensors in locations with poor cellular connectivity and we very seldom lose telemetry as a result of its smart buffering. Improved documentation of the API would also help to make the integration of new hardware a lot less of a pain point among our engineering staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice to have more immediately accessible community wiki discussions on very specific edge cases. The final effect of some of the finer QoS choices also proved to be harder to fully comprehend than expected. The official introduction wizards are awesome but anything beyond that felt a little bit disjointed regarding custom plugin development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.