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Version: Cloud

Monitor RabbitMQ on Instance

Overview​

Rabbitmq sfAgent plugin provides metrics related to RabbitMQ message broker.

Metrics collected by the plugin are organized across the following categories.

  • clusterDetails
  • nodeStats
  • connectionStats
  • channelStats
  • exchangeStats
  • queueStats
  • consumerStats

Note: node-is-quorum-critical and node-is-mirror-sync-critical is supported on 3.9 and above.

Tested on: RabbitMQ version 3.9 and 3.7

Configuration​

sfAgent section provides steps to install and automatically generate plugin configurations. User can also manually add the configuration shown below to config.yaml under /opt/sfagent/ directory

Metrics​

plugins ​

      name: rabbitmq
      enabled: true
      interval: 60
      config:
        documentsTypes:
          - clusterDetails
          - nodeStats
          - connectionStats
          - channelStats
          - exchangeStats
          - queueStats
          - consumerStats
        host: localhost
        password: <password>
        port: 15672
        secure: false
        username: <username>

Parameters required in metrics plugin  ​

  • Username: username of the RabbitMQ user
  • password: password for RabbitMQ
  • port: Broker Port
  • secure: http(false) or https(true)
  • documentTypes: User can either leave this empty to collect all documentTypes or mention specific documentTypes to collect. Available options for plugin type RabbitMQ are clusterDetails, nodeStats, connectionStats, exchangeStats, queueStats, consumerStats

Viewing data and dashboards​

  • Data generated by plugin can be viewed in browse data page inside the respective application under plugin=RabbitMQ and documentType=Cluster_details.
  • Dashboard for this data can be instantiated by Importing dashboard template RabbitMQ to the application dashboard.