The IOTech Edge Historian Service provides a scalable, industrial-grade solution for long-term telemetry and command data storage at the edge. Purpose-built to address operational and compliance needs, the service ensures fast, reliable, and secure handling of high-volume, time-stamped data — even in remote, offline, or resource-constrained environments.
Leveraging the power of TimescaleDB on PostgreSQL, Edge Historian enables efficient time-series data management optimized for industrial workloads and edge deployments.
The Edge Historian Service is ideal for a wide variety of use cases, including:
Edge Historian is based on the Core Data Service provided by the open-source EdgeX Foundry but is optimized by IOTech for persistent and high-throughput time-series storage. It captures and stores large volumes of device telemetry data using TimescaleDB, ensuring high-speed reads and writes, compression, and retention tuning at scale.
The Edge Historian Service supports seamless ingestion and storage from a range of Edge Central and EdgeX Foundry sources:
