Welcome to the Factry Historian Knowledge Base

The Factry Historian Knowledge Base is your central reference for everything related to 

. It is designed to help you understand, install, and get the most out of our open industrial data platform.

It is designed to help users, system integrators, and IT/OT specialists get the most out of our open industrial data platform.

Whether you are just evaluating Factry Historian for the first time, running a production deployment, or planning a migration from a legacy historian, this space provides the guidance, reference, and examples you need.

The Knowledge Base is organized into six sections:


Explanations of the core building blocks of Factry Historian, including collectors, measurements, assets, events, calculations, sinks and forwarders.


Practical step-by-step instructions for common tasks such as configuring collectors, managing data retention, and integrating with other systems.


Technical details about configuration parameters, environment variables, and deployment options.


Complete API documentation with request/response examples to help you query and integrate Historian data into your own applications or analytics pipelines.


Release notes that track new features, improvements, and fixes across Historian versions.

 at the top of the page to quickly find relevant articles.

 that can answer your questions in natural language and suggest the right documentation.

If you’re new to Factry Historian, start with the 

 section to spin up a local test environment.

If you already have a running setup, explore the 

 to dive deeper into configuration and best practices.

Introduction

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Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface

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An RRULE is a recurrence rule which defines a pattern to generate a set of timestamps to setup new events.