ThingsBoard
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device connectivity, data collection, processing, and visualization. Licensed under Apache 2.0 and developed by ThingsBoard Inc., it supports multi-tenant device management, telemetry over MQTT/HTTP/CoAP/LwM2M/SNMP, a drag-and-drop rule engine, calculated fields, 600+ customizable dashboard widgets, alarms, RPC, OTA firmware updates, edge computing, mobile apps, and a distributed MQTT broker (TBMQ). Available as Community Edition (free, self-hosted), Professional Edition (self-hosted subscription), and ThingsBoard Cloud (managed PaaS).
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles ThingsBoard the way a machine reads it — 115 machine-readable artifacts across 58 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ThingsBoard scores 62.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile ThingsBoard
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ThingsBoard. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 58
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
ThingsBoard alarm-comment-controller API
Alarm Comment
ThingsBoard asset-profile-controller API
Asset Profile
ThingsBoard audit-log-controller API
Audit Log
ThingsBoard calculated-field-controller API
Calculated Field
ThingsBoard component-descriptor-controller API
Component Descriptor
ThingsBoard dashboard-controller API
Dashboard
ThingsBoard device-connectivity-controller API
Device Connectivity
ThingsBoard device-profile-controller API
Device Profile
ThingsBoard edge-event-controller API
Edge Event
ThingsBoard entities-version-control-controller API
Entities Version Control
ThingsBoard entity-query-controller API
Entity Query
ThingsBoard entity-relation-controller API
Entity Relation
ThingsBoard entity-view-controller API
Entity View
ThingsBoard mail-config-template-controller API
Mail Config Template
ThingsBoard mobile-app-bundle-controller API
Mobile App Bundle
ThingsBoard mobile-app-controller API
Mobile App
ThingsBoard notification-controller API
Notification
ThingsBoard notification-rule-controller API
Notification Rule
ThingsBoard notification-target-controller API
Notification Target
ThingsBoard notification-template-controller API
Notification Template
ThingsBoard o-auth-2-config-template-controller API
O Auth 2 Config Template
ThingsBoard ota-package-controller API
Ota Package
ThingsBoard qr-code-settings-controller API
Qr Code Settings
ThingsBoard queue-stats-controller API
Queue Stats
ThingsBoard rule-chain-controller API
Rule Chain
ThingsBoard rule-engine-controller API
Rule Engine
ThingsBoard tb-resource-controller API
Tb Resource
ThingsBoard telemetry-controller API
Telemetry
ThingsBoard tenant-profile-controller API
Tenant Profile
ThingsBoard two-factor-auth-config-controller API
Two Factor Auth Config
ThingsBoard two-factor-auth-controller API
Two Factor Auth
ThingsBoard ui-settings-controller API
Ui Settings
ThingsBoard usage-info-controller API
Usage Info
ThingsBoard widget-type-controller API
Widget Type
ThingsBoard widgets-bundle-controller API
Widgets Bundle
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Open Collections 15
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
ThingsBoard Admin API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard AI API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Alarms API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Dashboards API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Devices API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Edge API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard LwM2M API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Mobile App API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Notifications API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard RPC API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Rule Engine API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Telemetry API
OPEN COLLECTIONThingsBoard Tenants and Customers API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Thingsboard Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Thingsboard Finops
FINOPSFeatures 20
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Thingsboard Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
ThingsBoard API Rules
SPECTRALThingsBoard API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 11
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ThingsBoard Alarm
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard Asset
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard AssetProfile
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard Customer
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard Dashboard
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard Device
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard DeviceProfile
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard EntityRelation
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard RuleChain
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard Tenant
JSON SCHEMAThingsBoard User
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Examples 2
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Thingsboard Login Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for ThingsBoard — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 11
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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