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IoT Platform:Overview of offline data storage

Last Updated:Jun 23, 2026

You can use offline data storage to view device status and the Thing Specification Language (TSL) data that your devices report. Offline data includes platform system tables, time series tables, snapshot tables, and custom storage tables.

Prerequisites

Data must be backed up. For more information, see data backup.

Limits

This feature is available only for Standard and Premium instances in the China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), Singapore, and US (Virginia) regions.

Scenarios

In addition to viewing data, storage tables support the following capabilities:

Platform system table

The platform system table stores information about products, devices, and device groups, such as device creation times and group relationships, to simplify device data analysis and management.

It includes product tables, device tables, device group tables, device group relationship tables, device tag tables, and device location data tables. For more information, see view platform system table.

Time series table and snapshot table

Use the time series and snapshot tables to view the Thing Specification Language (TSL) properties and event data reported by devices, organized by product and dimensions.

Custom storage table

You can create custom storage tables to store data processed by Data Parsing or SQL Analysis.

  • For more information about custom storage tables, see create and view custom storage table.

  • Custom storage tables can also be used in SQL analysis:

    • New custom storage tables without data can serve as result storage for SQL analysis.

    • Custom storage tables with existing data can serve as query objects in SQL analysis.

    For more information, see SQL analysis.