Vibration Monitoring Architecture: From Sensor to Dashboard

The first time I tried to stream raw vibration data to a dashboard, I managed to crash my MQTT broker in under ten minutes. I had a high-frequency accelerometer spitting out samples at 5kHz, and I thought I'd just wrap those values in JSON and send them over the wire. The result wasn't a pretty graph; it was a series of Connection refused errors and a broker that had completely locked up under the weight of thousands of tiny packets per second. If you're building a vibration monitoring system, y