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+# Monitoring
+
+This is the sub project to establish monitoring for various things, that cannot be implemented in the Kubernetes cluster. This goes mostly into the direction of client side MQTT messages from sensors.
+
+## MQTT testing
+
+To test MQTT a cli can be used. See [hivemq install instructions](https://hivemq.github.io/mqtt-cli/docs/installation/#homebrew).
+
+```sh
+
+
+```
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