Documentation

Man pages

• mosquitto - running the Mosquitto broker
• mosquitto.conf - the Mosquitto broker configuration file
• mosquitto_ctrl - command line utility for managing Mosquitto broker configuration
• mosquitto_ctrl_dynsec - mosquitto_ctrl batch mode for the dynamic-security plugin
• mosquitto_ctrl_shell - mosquitto_ctrl interactive shell mode (recommended)
• mosquitto_passwd - command line utility for generating Mosquitto password files
• mosquitto_pub - command line utility for publishing messages to a broker
• mosquitto_rr - command line utility for simple request/response with a broker
• mosquitto_signal - command line utility for sending signals to a broker, most useful on Windows
• mosquitto_sub - command line utility for subscribing to topics on a broker
• mosquitto-tls - brief cheat sheet for creating x509 certificates
• mqtt - description of MQTT features

Listeners

• Using Mosquitto with HAProxy - using Mosquitto with HAProxy with or without TLS termination.
• Replacing the per_listener_settings option

Persistence

• Sqlite

Plugins

• ACL file - replacement for the acl_file option.
• Password file - replacement for the password_file option.
• Dynamic Security - details of using the Dynamic Security authentication and access control plugin.
• Sparkplug Aware - make Mosquitto fully compliant with the Sparkplug protocol.

Other

• Authentication methods - details on the different authentication options available.
• Using the snap package - specific instructions on installing and configuring the Mosquitto snap package.
• Migrating from 1.x to 2.0 - details of changes needed to migrate to version 2.0.

libmosquitto API

• libmosquitto API documentation

Third party

These are some Mosquitto documentation hosted by third parties.

• Steve's internet guide - a broad range of documentation and examples covering Mosquitto and the Paho Python client, amongst others.
• docs.cedalo.com - includes documentation for both Mosquitto and Eclipse Streamsheets