RabbitMQ Monitoring

Overview

Applications Manager monitors the critical components of RabbitMQ servers to detect individual queues and collect metrics which reflect the queue's performance and throughput.

The critical components of RabbitMQ servers include:

• Queued messages and message rates statistics
• Node details like socket descriptor and Erlang process utilization
• Channel statistics like message publish rates
• Exchange message rates
• In depth connection status

Creating a new RabbitMQ server monitor

Prerequisites for monitoring RabbitMQ: Click here

Using the REST API to add a new RabbitMQ monitor: Click here

To create a RabbitMQ Server Monitor, follow the steps given below:

1. Click on New Monitor link.
2. Select RabbitMQ under the Middleware/Portal list.
3. Enter the Display Name and the name of the host where the RabbitMQ Server is running.
4. Enter the Port ID where the management plugin is configured. For default installations of RabbitMQ management plugin, the port number is 55672.
5. Enter the correct User Name and Password of RabbitMQ server.
6. You can select the Monitor Specific Parameters option to restrict discovery and monitor specific parameters in RabbitMQ monitor. This option will help to restrict Discovery of various parameters including Queues, Exchanges, Channels and Connections. If Monitor Specific Parameters option is enabled, specify the Discovery Filter Regex based on which the parameters are to be discovered and monitored. Learn more
7. Set the polling interval.
8. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.
9. Select the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate RabbitMQ server (optional). You can choose multiple groups to associate your monitor.
10. Click Add Monitor(s). This identifies RabbitMQ server from the network and starts monitoring.

Monitored Parameters

RabbitMQ monitoring includes delivering proactive alarm notifications during network congestion, checking if a consumer is processing slowly or has gone down under heavy message traffic, identifying performance bottlenecks due to high socket descriptors utilization and generating historical reports.

• Availability tab shows an availability history bar graph of the RabbitMQ server. Using the drop-down list at the right-hand corner of the page, you can set the bar chart to show availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• Performance tab gives a graphical representation of the publish, delivery, acknowledged and unacknowledged rates of RabbitMQ server as well as the health history for the past 24 hours or 30 days. The colored icons at the corners of the graphs pop up a 'heat chart' for the respective metric rate.
• List view tab lists all the RabbitMQ servers monitored by Applications Manager along with their overall availability and health status. You can edit the monitor details and configure alarms from the list. You can also perform bulk admin configurations from this view.

The table below gives a detailed description of the parameters displayed in each of the following tabs:

• Overview
• Nodes
• Queues
• Exchanges
• Channels
• Connections

Overview

Nodes

Queues

Exchanges

Channels

Connections

You can enable, disable or delete any of the nodes, queues, exchanges, channels or connections from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page. You can also compare reports from an adjacent drop-down list.