# \#AMAMQTT | I'm building a custom dashboard for devices that sends data over MQTT Sparkplug B. What is the best way to take that data stream from MQTT and maintain the current state

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This question was asked during the webinar titled “Ask Me Anything About MQTT: Take 2” held on October 26. 2021 by Kyle.

Answer: Yes. You can. You can use our [open-source Sparkplug extension](https://www.hivemq.com/extension/sparkplug-influxdb-extension/).

The HiveMQ Sparkplug Extension helps gather MQTT Sparkplug metrics from HiveMQ and persist them into an InfluxDB database. This database can be used as the data source for a monitoring dashboard to monitor directly the data from the devices and gateways of a Sparkplug Infrastructure.