ingestion
Taking messages off the broker, checking them and writing them into storage.
Ingestion is the pipeline stage that consumes incoming messages, validates and normalises them, de-duplicates and batches them, and writes them to a store.
Examples
The greenhouse ingest consumer subscribes to
gh1/+/telemetry/climateat QoS 1, rejects a reading like"temp_c": "warm", and stores good ones withINSERT OR IGNOREkeyed on(device_id, msg_id).