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RabbitMQ collector

RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker.

This module monitors one or more RabbitMQ instances, depending on your configuration.

It collects data using an HTTP-based API provided by the management plugin. The following endpoints are used:

  • /api/overview
  • /api/node/{node_name}
  • /api/vhosts
  • /api/queues (disabled by default)

Requirements

RabbitMQ with enabled management plugin.

Metrics

All metrics have "rabbitmq." prefix.

Labels per scope:

  • global: no labels.
  • vhost: vhost.
  • queue: vhost, queue.
MetricScopeDimensionsUnits
messages_countglobalready, unacknowledgedmessages
messages_rateglobalack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutablemessages/s
objects_countglobalchannels, consumers, connections, queues, exchangesmessages
connection_churn_rateglobalcreated, closedoperations/s
channel_churn_rateglobalcreated, closedoperations/s
queue_churn_rateglobalcreated, deleted, declaredoperations/s
file_descriptors_countglobalavailable, usedfd
sockets_countglobalavailable, usedsockets
erlang_processes_countglobalavailable, usedprocesses
erlang_run_queue_processes_countgloballengthprocesses
memory_usageglobalusedbytes
disk_space_free_sizeglobalfreebytes
vhost_messages_countvhostready, unacknowledgedmessages
vhost_messages_ratevhostack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutablemessages/s
queue_messages_countqueueready, unacknowledged, paged_out, persistentmessages
queue_messages_ratequeueack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutablemessages/s

Configuration

Edit the go.d/rabbitmq.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/rabbitmq.conf

Here is an example for 2 servers:

jobs:
- name: local
url: http://localhost:15672
collect_queues_metrics: no

- name: remote
url: http://203.0.113.10:15672
collect_queues_metrics: no

This collector can also collect per-vhost per-queue metrics, which is disabled by default (collect_queues_metrics). Enabling this can introduce serious overhead on both netdata and rabbitmq if many queues are configured and used.

For all available options, see the module configuration file.

Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot issues with the rabbitmq collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.

  • Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].

    cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
  • Switch to the netdata user.

    sudo -u netdata -s
  • Run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:

    ./go.d.plugin -d -m rabbitmq

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