timebase/collector repository overview

⁠Timebase Collector

Timebase Collector is the ingress component for Timebase Historian - it connects to your realtime industrial data sources and streams their values into Historian, buffering through any loss of connectivity.

Architecture

• Distributed architecture - run one or more Collectors close to your sources
• Plugin architecture with per-source configuration
• Store and forward buffering for interrupted connectivity
  
  

Sources (plugins)

• OPC UA (open source)
• MQTT (open source)
• SparkplugB (open source)
• Telegraf
• Simulator
  
  

Operate it

• Built-in web UI and an AI assistant for configuration and diagnostics
• MCP server, so AI agents can inspect your collectors and sources
• Secured by Timebase Pulse (OAuth 2.0 client credentials)
  
  

Runs on linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

⁠Documentation

For the Quick Start, the full-stack Compose file and further documentation, see Start Here for Docker⁠ on docs.timebase.com⁠.