General Information¶

Yamcs Server, or short Yamcs, is a central component for monitoring and controlling remote devices. Yamcs stores and processes packets, and provides an interface for end-user applications to subscribe to realtime or archived data. Typical use cases for such applications include telemetry displays and commanding tools.

Yamcs ships with an embedded web server for administering the server, the mission databases or for basic monitoring tasks. For more advanced requirements, Yamcs exposes its functionality over a well-documented HTTP-based API.

Yamcs is implemented entirely in Java, but it does rely on an external storage engine for actual data archiving. Currently the storage engine is RocksDB. The preferred target platform is Linux x64, but Yamcs can also be made to run on Mac OS X and Windows.