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Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 – Enterprise Edition

We are thrilled to announce the release of Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 – Enterprise Edition. This release represents a significant milestone, empowering enterprises with enhanced control, flexibility, and security for their MQTT environments.

With cutting-edge features like Project Management, User Management, SSO Support, White Labeling, Audit Trails, and an all-new Admin Board, Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 – Enterprise Edition delivers enterprise-grade functionality to help you scale efficiently and securely.

In addition to these features, the Enterprise Edition builds upon the innovations introduced in the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 release, including the built-in MQTT Client, Sparkplug Decoding, a native Topic Tree, more Monitoring Metrics and numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, ensuring a smoother and more reliable platform experience.

Whether you’re deploying on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, or using RPM packages, the Enterprise Edition is designed to meet the demands of large-scale operations while maintaining seamless management and robust security.

Let’s explore the powerful new capabilities introduced in this release.

🚀 Key Features and Enhancements

🖥️ Flexible Deployments

Feature Description: The Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition delivers adaptability by offering multiple deployment options tailored to your infrastructure needs.

  • Kubernetes and OpenShift: For modern, containerized environments, Cedalo MQTT Platform integrates natively with Kubernetes and OpenShift, enabling seamless orchestration and scaling. Whether you’re running applications on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid configurations, these options ensure your MQTT infrastructure is as dynamic as your business needs.
  • Docker and Docker Compose: Deploy the platform quickly and easily using Docker containers. With Docker Compose, you can define and manage multi-container setups, streamlining the deployment process for developers and IT teams alike.
  • RPM Packages: For organizations preferring more traditional deployment methods, Cedalo provides RPM packages that allow installation on bare-metal servers or virtual machines. These packages are ideal for specialized setups, or environments that require strict control over installation processes and configurations.

User Benefit: With these flexible deployment options, enterprises can seamlessly integrate the Cedalo MQTT Platform into their existing infrastructure, regardless of complexity or constraints. This ensures a smooth deployment process that minimizes downtime and operational effort while maximizing compatibility. By tailoring the deployment to their specific needs, organizations can maintain optimal performance, enhance reliability, and future-proof their infrastructure against evolving requirements.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

Documentation links:

🗂️ Project Management

Feature Description: Efficiently manage multi-tenancy within the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition using the powerful Project Management feature. Designed to simplify the organization and separation of resources, this capability ensures that enterprises can support multiple teams, clients, or projects within a single Platform instance.

  • Multi-Tenancy Support: Create and manage isolated projects, each with its own users, brokers, and configurations, allowing multiple teams or clients to operate independently within the same Platform.
  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Assign roles and permissions at the project level to ensure secure and granular access control for each tenant.
  • Centralized Management: Administer all projects from a single, intuitive interface, simplifying the oversight of complex, multi-tenant environments.
  • Scalability: Easily scale projects as tenants need to grow, ensuring that the Platform adapts to your business requirements.

User Benefit: The Project Management feature enables enterprises to fully leverage the Cedalo MQTT Platform for multi-tenant environments, providing the flexibility to manage multiple teams, departments, or clients within a unified infrastructure. With secure resource isolation, centralized control, and scalable configurations, organizations can optimize efficiency, reduce operational overhead, and maintain the highest standards of security and compliance across all tenants.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

To learn more about the new Project Management feature, refer to this documentation.


👤 User Management

Feature Description: Managing users and permissions is critical to maintaining secure and efficient operations in any enterprise environment. The Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition simplifies this process by offering a centralized user management system that balances ease of use with robust security and compliance features.

Key features include:

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Assign roles to users, ensuring that each individual can access only the resources they need. This minimizes security risks and supports compliance with enterprise policies.
  • Streamlined User Onboarding and Management: The intuitive interface enables administrators to quickly add, modify, and remove users, reducing operational overhead while ensuring a seamless onboarding process.
  • Seamless Integration with Identity Systems: The platform integrates with existing identity and access management systems, such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP, allowing enterprises to maintain a unified approach to user authentication.

User Benefit: The Cedalo MQTT Platform’s User Management feature empowers enterprises to maintain full control over who can access and configure their MQTT brokers, reducing the risk of unauthorized changes or data breaches. With granular permissions and seamless integration into existing identity systems, enterprises can ensure compliance with corporate security policies while enhancing operational efficiency. This centralized approach simplifies user management and provides peace of mind that critical infrastructure is protected and managed with precision.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

Check out the documentation to explore the User Management feature.

Explore the Cedalo MQTT Platform – Enterprise Edition. Sign up for a trial today!

🔑 SSO (Single Sign-On) Support

Feature Description: Effortless authentication is essential for modern enterprises, and the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition delivers robust Single Sign-On (SSO) support. By integrating with popular identity providers and protocols, the platform ensures a secure, seamless, and unified login experience for users across all enterprise systems.

  • Broad Protocol Support: The platform supports widely adopted standards like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP, ensuring compatibility with existing enterprise identity infrastructure.
  • Integration with Identity Providers: Easily integrate with industry-leading identity management systems such as Okta, Active Directory, and Keycloak to streamline authentication workflows.
  • Centralized Identity Management: SSO simplifies access control by allowing IT teams to manage user identities from a single source, reducing redundancy and improving operational efficiency.

User Benefit: With SSO support, enterprises can provide a seamless authentication experience that reduces password fatigue for users while enhancing overall security. By centralizing identity management and integrating with existing authentication systems, IT teams can simplify access control, improve compliance, and reduce the risk of credential-related breaches. This unified approach to authentication enables organizations to focus on productivity without compromising on security or user convenience.

To learn more about LDAP Authentication, see this documentation.
For the SAML Authentication, refer to this documentation.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

✨ White Labeling

Feature Description: Brand consistency is vital for fostering trust and recognition, both internally and externally. The Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition empowers enterprises to customize its look and feel to align perfectly with their corporate identity, creating a seamless and professional brand experience.

  • Custom Logos: Replace default branding with your company’s logo, making the platform uniquely yours.
  • Custom Colors: Personalize the color scheme to match your corporate palette, ensuring every detail of the interface resonates with your brand identity.
  • Seamless User Experience: Deliver a consistent, branded experience for both internal users and external stakeholders, reinforcing trust and professionalism.

User Benefit: White Labeling allows enterprises to fully integrate the Cedalo MQTT Platform into their existing ecosystem, creating a cohesive brand presence across all touchpoints. By tailoring logos, and color schemes, organizations can enhance trust and recognition while delivering a platform experience that feels like an integral part of their business. This level of customization not only improves user satisfaction but also reinforces a professional and unified corporate identity.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

To learn more about the white labeling feature, refer to the documentation.

Check out the Enterprise Project Management feature by signing up for a trial, here.


📜 Audit Trail

Feature Description: Maintaining transparency and accountability within your MQTT infrastructure is critical for security and compliance. While Pro Mosquitto already includes comprehensive audit trail capabilities for tracking broker-level activities, the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 Enterprise Edition goes a step further with a robust Audit Trail feature to track and log all critical actions within the Platform. This ensures adherence to internal policies and industry regulations while providing complete visibility across the entire infrastructure.

  • Comprehensive Platform Logging: Capture and store all significant platform-level events, such as user logins, role and permission changes, configuration updates, tenant management actions, and system-level modifications. This provides a detailed record of interactions within the Cedalo MQTT Platform.
  • Customizable Log Levels: Define the granularity of logs to suit your operational or compliance needs, from minimal activity to full event tracking.
  • Broad Compatibility: Leverage Syslog’s compatibility with numerous log management tools and monitoring solutions to integrate seamlessly into your existing workflows.
  • Security-Focused: Audit logs include detailed information about platform-level actions, such as configuration changes, helping identify potential threats or unauthorized activities.
  • Compliance Support: Maintain detailed records to meet industry regulations and internal audit requirements, ensuring transparency and accountability across your MQTT platform operations.

User Benefit: The Audit Trail feature empowers organizations with tools to monitor and document every critical platform-level action. Offering comprehensive and customizable logging helps IT teams ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards, troubleshoot issues more efficiently, and enhance overall security. Whether tracking administrative changes, or preparing for audits, the Audit Trail delivers the visibility and control needed to confidently manage the Cedalo MQTT Platform.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, Enterprise

To learn more about the Audit trail feature, see the documentation.

🌐 REST APIs

Feature Description: The Cedalo MQTT Platform provides a powerful suite of REST APIs, enabling seamless integration with other systems, automation of routine tasks, and the ability to create custom solutions tailored to your organization’s unique requirements. These APIs are designed to enhance flexibility and scalability, making it easy to extend the platform’s capabilities.

  • Comprehensive API Coverage: Access a wide range of endpoints for managing users, brokers, configurations, projects, and more, offering complete control over your MQTT environment.
  • Automation: Automate repetitive tasks, such as user provisioning, broker configuration, and monitoring, to save time and reduce operational overhead.
  • Integration: Easily connect the Cedalo MQTT Platform with external systems, such as IoT applications, identity providers, or monitoring tools, ensuring seamless operation within your existing infrastructure.
  • Secure by Design: All API interactions are protected by robust authentication mechanisms, ensuring data integrity and secure access to your MQTT infrastructure.

User Benefits: The REST APIs empower enterprises with the tools to automate workflows, streamline operations, and integrate the Cedalo MQTT Platform into their broader technology stack. These APIs facilitate innovation and customization by enabling developers to interact programmatically with the platform, helping organizations adapt quickly to evolving requirements while ensuring operational efficiency and scalability.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, and Enterprise

Visit the documentation to learn more about REST APIs.

Overview of available REST APIs:

Projects: Manage and organize projects on the platform level.
User: Manage and organize users on the platform level.
Brokers: Access and control Pro Mosquitto instances, including connection settings and licenses.
Clusters: Enable efficient management of clustered broker setups for high availability.
Security – Access Control: Control the dynamic security feature.
Security – Application Tokens: Enables token management for REST API access. It supports operations to create, manage, retrieve, and delete/revoke tokens.
Monitoring – Client Control: Oversee connected clients, including enabling, disabling, or disconnecting.
Monitoring – Client Inspect: Retrieve detailed information about connected clients to get diagnostics.
Monitoring – Topic Tree: Get topic tree information of Pro Mosquitto for better understanding and optimization of topic structures.
Streams: Handle data streams registered with the broker, including stream creation, updates, and replay functionalities.

🛠️ Admin Board

Feature Description: The Admin Board is the central hub for managing your Cedalo MQTT Platform. It provides a comprehensive interface to oversee and configure users, administrators, brokers, and projects, along with platform-wide settings like logging and UI customization. This powerful tool ensures seamless management of all aspects of your MQTT infrastructure.

  • Management:
    • Users: View the list of registered users, add new users, and access detailed user information.
    • Projects: Manage current projects, view the project list, and explore detailed configurations for each project.
    • Brokers: Access and manage the list of installed brokers.
    • Administrators: View and configure administrators, including Administrator API Tokens, for streamlined access control.
  • Monitoring:
    • Audit Trail: Define and manage audit trail or logging settings, including targets for secure and compliant operations.
  • Settings:
    • General Settings: Configure platform-wide settings to customize and optimize your installation.
    • License Management: View and manage your current platform license to ensure compliance.
    • Appearance Customization: Modify the platform’s UI to align with your corporate branding through white labeling options.

User Benefits: The Admin Board simplifies the complexity of managing a robust MQTT setup, bringing all critical tools into a single, easy-to-use interface. With comprehensive management features, monitoring options, and customizable settings, administrators can efficiently control and optimize their platform, ensuring smooth operations and a tailored user experience.

Discover more about the Admin Board feature by referring to this documentation.

Pricing and plan information:

  • Instance: On-premises
  • Subscription plan: On-premises, and Enterprise

🔥 Everything You Need in One Powerful Edition

On top of all the robust features mentioned above, the 3.0 Enterprise Edition of the Cedalo MQTT Platform includes every capability introduced in the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 release. This includes powerful tools like the built-in MQTT Client for testing and debugging, Sparkplug Decoding for seamless integration with industrial IoT systems, and enhanced broker monitoring and insights for better visibility into performance. The release also brings bug fixes, and performance improvements that ensure a smoother, faster, and more reliable platform experience.

For a detailed overview of the Cedalo MQTT Platform 3.0 release, check this blog post. The Enterprise Edition builds upon these innovations to deliver the most advanced, scalable, and secure solution for enterprise-grade MQTT operations.

🚀 Let’s take your MQTT infrastructure to the next level! — sign up for a trial today!

About the author
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Philip Ackermann

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cedalo

Philip Ackermann is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cedalo, bringing over 20 years of software development experience to the team. During his 11 years at the Fraunhofer Institute, specializing in Web Compliance and IoT technologies, he focused on software engineering, software architecture, and product development.

In addition to that, Philip is a published author, having written five books on software development, covering topics such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, and Fullstack web development. Two of these books have been translated into English, broadening their global impact and enriching the international software development community.

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