ThingsBoard 3.4.3 Monolithic Dev Setup (Docker Compose)

This setup provides a monolithic ThingsBoard CE 3.4.3 development environment with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, pgAdmin (Postgres GUI), RedisInsight (Redis GUI), and CassWeb (Cassandra GUI).

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🚀 Usage

1. Initialize database schema

Run this step once to create the ThingsBoard schema in PostgreSQL and Cassandra:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-init.yml up thingsboard-init

Once initialization completes successfully, you can stop the init container.

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2. Start the stack

Run all services (ThingsBoard, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, pgAdmin, RedisInsight, CassWeb):

docker compose up -d

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3. Check logs (if needed)

To view logs from the ThingsBoard service:

docker compose logs tb-node

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🌐 Access UIs

• ThingsBoard GUI → http://localhost:8080

  • Default login:
    • tenant@thingsboard.org / tenant
    • sysadmin@thingsboard.org / sysadmin

• pgAdmin (PostgreSQL) → http://localhost:5050

  • Login: admin@admin.com / admin
  • Add a new connection:
    • Host: postgres
    • Port: 5432
    • User: postgres
    • Password: postgres

• RedisInsight (Redis) → http://localhost:5540

  • Add a new connection:
    • Host: redis
    • Port: 6379

• CassWeb (Cassandra GUI) → http://localhost:8081

  • Default configuration connects to cassandra:9042 inside Docker.
  • Lets you browse keyspaces, tables, and run CQL queries.

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🗄️ Cassandra Quick Check (CLI)

You can also verify Cassandra manually with CQLSH.

1. Open CQLSH client inside the container

docker compose exec -it cassandra cqlsh

If successful, you should see something like:

Connected to Thingsboard Cluster at 127.0.0.1:9042
[cqlsh 6.1.0 | Cassandra 4.1.3 | CQL spec 3.4.6 | Native protocol v5]

2. List keyspaces

describe keyspaces;

Example output:

system  system_schema  system_auth  thingsboard ...

Confirm that the thingsboard keyspace exists.

3. Use the thingsboard keyspace

use thingsboard;

4. List tables

describe tables;

Example output:

ts_kv_cf  ts_kv_partitions_cf

5. Inspect the ts_kv_cf table

select * from ts_kv_cf limit 10;

Example output:

 entity_type | entity_id | key | partition | ts | bool_v | dbl_v | json_v | long_v | str_v
-------------+-----------+-----+-----------+----+--------+-------+--------+--------+-------
      DEVICE | ...       | ... | ...       | .. |   null |  null |   null |      8 |  null

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🛑 Stop the stack

To stop all containers:

docker compose down

To stop and remove volumes (clear databases):

docker compose down -v