RabbitMQ icon

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

Plugin: go.d.plugin Module: rabbitmq

Overview

This collector monitors RabbitMQ instances.

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)

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn’t support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

Enable management plugin.

The management plugin is included in the RabbitMQ distribution, but disabled. To enable see Management Plugin documentation.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is go.d/rabbitmq.conf.

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config go.d/rabbitmq.conf

Options

The following options can be defined globally: update_every, autodetection_retry.

Name Description Default Required
update_every Data collection frequency. 1 False
autodetection_retry Recheck interval in seconds. Zero means no recheck will be scheduled. 0 False
url Server URL. http://localhost:15672 True
collect_queues_metrics Collect stats per vhost per queues. Enabling this can introduce serious overhead on both Netdata and RabbitMQ if many queues are configured and used. False False
timeout HTTP request timeout. 1 False
username Username for basic HTTP authentication. False
password Password for basic HTTP authentication. False
proxy_url Proxy URL. False
proxy_username Username for proxy basic HTTP authentication. False
proxy_password Password for proxy basic HTTP authentication. False
method HTTP request method. GET False
body HTTP request body. False
headers HTTP request headers. False
not_follow_redirects Redirect handling policy. Controls whether the client follows redirects. False False
tls_skip_verify Server certificate chain and hostname validation policy. Controls whether the client performs this check. False False
tls_ca Certification authority that the client uses when verifying the server’s certificates. False
tls_cert Client TLS certificate. False
tls_key Client TLS key. False

Examples

Basic

An example configuration.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:15672

Basic HTTP auth

Local server with basic HTTP authentication.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:15672
    username: admin
    password: password

Multi-instance

Note: When you define multiple jobs, their names must be unique.

Local and remote instances.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:15672

  - name: remote
    url: http://192.0.2.0:15672

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per RabbitMQ instance

These metrics refer to the entire monitored application.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
rabbitmq.messages_count ready, unacknowledged messages
rabbitmq.messages_rate ack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutable messages/s
rabbitmq.objects_count channels, consumers, connections, queues, exchanges messages
rabbitmq.connection_churn_rate created, closed operations/s
rabbitmq.channel_churn_rate created, closed operations/s
rabbitmq.queue_churn_rate created, deleted, declared operations/s
rabbitmq.file_descriptors_count available, used fd
rabbitmq.sockets_count available, used sockets
rabbitmq.erlang_processes_count available, used processes
rabbitmq.erlang_run_queue_processes_count length processes
rabbitmq.memory_usage used bytes
rabbitmq.disk_space_free_size free bytes

Per vhost

These metrics refer to the virtual host.

Labels:

Label Description
vhost virtual host name

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
rabbitmq.vhost_messages_count ready, unacknowledged messages
rabbitmq.vhost_messages_rate ack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutable messages/s

Per queue

These metrics refer to the virtual host queue.

Labels:

Label Description
vhost virtual host name
queue queue name

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
rabbitmq.queue_messages_count ready, unacknowledged, paged_out, persistent messages
rabbitmq.queue_messages_rate ack, publish, publish_in, publish_out, confirm, deliver, deliver_no_ack, get, get_no_ack, deliver_get, redeliver, return_unroutable messages/s

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Troubleshooting

Debug Mode

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
    

Get Netdata

Sign up for free

Want to see a demonstration of Netdata for multiple use cases?

Go to Live Demo