ThingsBoard Community Edition Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

ThingsBoard Community Edition hosting on xCloud lets you deploy ThingsBoard Community Edition, an open-source IoT platform for device management, telemetry, dashboards and alarms, on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned node with a private PostgreSQL database on a persistent volume, replaces the default system administrator password with a generated one and publishes the web interface and HTTP device API over HTTPS. MQTT and other raw transports are not published.

  • No terminal
  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is ThingsBoard Community Edition?

ThingsBoard is an all-in-one IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualisation and device management. It provisions devices and assets, stores telemetry, builds dashboards from built-in or custom widgets, computes values in real time and uses rule chains to transform data and raise alarms on telemetry, attribute updates, device inactivity and user actions, with email, SMS and third-party notifications. A self-hosted ThingsBoard Community Edition is an IoT platform on your own server. This 4.3.1.4 release is Apache-2.0; upstream moved to BUSL-1.1 from 4.4.

On xCloud it is ThingsBoard Community Edition 4.3.1.4, the official image pinned by digest, with PostgreSQL 16 kept private and a one-shot service that initialises the database. The thingsboard_postgres_data volume holds users, tenants, devices, telemetry and dashboards. xCloud generates the system administrator password, and you create a tenant for normal work. Only HTTPS and the HTTP device API are published.

About this app

Version xCloud installs
4.3.1.4
Official website
thingsboard.io
Documentation
thingsboard.io/docs

ThingsBoard Community Edition is a third-party project. xCloud is not affiliated with or endorsed by its maintainers. Names and logos belong to their owners.

From Sign-Up to a Live IoT Platform In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting an IoT device-management platform normally means a node, a private database, a rotated administrator credential, a domain and a certificate before a single device connects. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick ThingsBoard Community Edition from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain and complete the installation.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up the official ThingsBoard node, provision private PostgreSQL storage, rotate the documented default system-administrator password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.

  3. Step 03

    Register A Device And Send Telemetry

    Open the generated system-administrator credentials from xCloud, sign in, create a tenant and tenant administrator, then add a device and send a test telemetry value before connecting production hardware.

Everything ThingsBoard Does, On Your Own Server

ThingsBoard Community Edition runs in full here — device management, telemetry, dashboards, alarms and rule chains, on infrastructure you control.

  • Browser-Based Device Management

    Register and manage IoT devices from a browser-based tenant workspace, instead of a bespoke admin tool per project.

  • HTTP Telemetry Collection

    Collect HTTP device telemetry and inspect the latest values in real time, direct from your own devices.

  • Dashboards And Visualization

    Build dashboards over collected telemetry to watch device fleets and metrics without a separate BI tool.

  • Alarms And Rule-Engine Automation

    Trigger alarms and automate responses to incoming telemetry with ThingsBoard's rule chains, running entirely on your server.

  • Multi-Tenant Workspace

    Create tenants and tenant administrators to separate day-to-day device management from system administration.

  • Persistent Telemetry Across Restarts

    Users, devices, dashboards, rules and telemetry persist on their own database volume, surviving an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your IoT Platform 24/7

Managed hosting for ThingsBoard Community Edition, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

  • ThingsBoard Community Edition 4.3.1.4 deployed instantly
  • Private PostgreSQL storage
  • Rotated administrator password
  • HTTP device telemetry API
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • Server security updates included
  • Choose your server region
  • Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With ThingsBoard Community Edition

  • Collect telemetry from devices over HTTPS

    Register a device, copy its access token and post readings to the HTTP device API, so sensors can report to your own server without an MQTT port open.

  • Build a dashboard from live data

    Assemble widgets on a dashboard that shows the latest telemetry, and share it with customers, so operations staff see device state at a glance.

  • Raise alarms when a device goes quiet

    Use rule chains to raise an alarm on a threshold, an attribute change or device inactivity, so a failed sensor is noticed rather than assumed fine.

  • Keep device data on your own server

    Store tenants, devices and telemetry in your own PostgreSQL database, so industrial or customer readings stay on infrastructure you control.

ThingsBoard Community Edition vs Alternatives

Hosted IoT platforms
A hosted IoT service keeps your telemetry on the vendor's cloud. ThingsBoard Community Edition runs on your own server, with telemetry and dashboards stored in your PostgreSQL database.
OpenRemote
OpenRemote has its own OneClick page. In a ThingsBoard vs OpenRemote comparison, ThingsBoard offers device and asset management, rule chains, alarms and widget dashboards in one platform.
Node-RED
Node-RED has its own OneClick page. It wires flows between devices and services; ThingsBoard adds multi-tenant device management, telemetry storage and dashboards around its rule chains.
ChirpStack
ChirpStack has its own OneClick page. It is a LoRaWAN network server, while ThingsBoard is the platform that stores, processes and visualises device data on dashboards.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for ThingsBoard Community Edition hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Most popular

A small device fleet and a single tenant workspace.

$24.99per month

  • 6 GB RAM
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 100 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for a larger device fleet and heavier telemetry throughput.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

ThingsBoard alongside a larger self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

  • 24 GB RAM
  • 8 vCPU cores
  • 300 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. ThingsBoard Community Edition itself is free under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy ThingsBoard Community Edition on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

  • 6–10 servers
  • Unlimited sites
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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does ThingsBoard Community Edition need?

The template floor is 4096 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk, since a Java node and PostgreSQL both run. This page sells the 6 GB plan as the entry tier; telemetry volume and retention can need far more, so monitor heap and disk.

Can you self-host ThingsBoard Community Edition with Docker?

Yes, and this template is thingsboard community edition docker hosting without the setup: the official node image and PostgreSQL 16 pinned by digest, a database initialised on first start, one volume, a generated password and HTTPS.

How do devices send data to ThingsBoard Community Edition?

Over the HTTP device API through your HTTPS domain, using each device's access token. Create a tenant, add a device, copy its token and post a test value, then confirm it appears in latest telemetry and a dashboard widget.

Does this ThingsBoard install expose MQTT?

No. The template publishes only HTTPS and the HTTP device API, and deliberately leaves MQTT, MQTTS, CoAP, LwM2M, SNMP and Edge RPC unpublished. Qualify firewall and TLS settings separately before adding raw IoT transports.

How do I sign in to ThingsBoard Community Edition?

Sign in as [email protected] with the generated system administrator password, which replaces the documented default. Then create a tenant administrator and use that tenant account for normal device and dashboard work.

Is ThingsBoard Community Edition an alternative to hosted IoT platforms?

For collecting and visualising device data, yes. Upstream describes an all-in-one platform and makes no comparison with hosted services. You manage updates, capacity and security, including any raw IoT ports you add.

Is ThingsBoard Community Edition free?

This pinned 4.3.1.4 release is Apache-2.0 licensed and free to run, but upstream uses the Business Source License 1.1 from 4.4, so check the licence before changing versions. Your cost is the Cloud VPS, making this a ThingsBoard Community Edition cloud install of your own.

How do I back up ThingsBoard Community Edition?

Back up the thingsboard_postgres_data volume as one consistent unit before upgrades. It holds users, tenants, devices, telemetry, dashboards, alarms and rule-chain metadata. Test a restore in an isolated install at the same release.

How do I upgrade ThingsBoard Community Edition?

ThingsBoard stays on its pinned 4.3.1.4 image until a newer template version is adopted. Copy the database beforehand and check the release notes, including the licence change in 4.4. Nothing upgrades automatically.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.

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