RabbitMQ monitoring - Linux, Mac and FreeBSD – Server Density

The agent can parse the output of the rabbitmq-status plugin to show the current status of RabbitMQ connections as well as individual metrics for queues.

This article is outdated and will eventually be removed. See v2 agent RabbitMQ monitoring

These metrics are only available for paid accounts. It also requires some additional configuration of your RabbitMQ installation.

If you do not wish to monitor RabbitMQ then leave the default value in the /etc/sd-agent/config.cfg file and the agent will ignore it.

1) a) Configuring RabbitMQ 1.7.x and 1.8.x

rabbitmq-status plugin

You first need to ensure the rabbitmq-status plugin is installed. This is not available by default and must be installed separately:

wget http://dev.lshift.net/majek/rabbitmq-status_1.7.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf rabbitmq-status_1.7.0.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-1.7.0/plugins
sudo mv *.ez /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-1.7.0/plugins
sudo rabbitmq-activate-plugins
sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server restart

This has been tested on RabbitMQ versions 1.7.0, 1.7.1, and 1.7.2.

1) b) Configuring RabbitMQ 2.x

rabbitmq-management

Install the RabbitMQ management plugin, rabbitmq-management. Detailed installation instructions for it are available here. This has been tested on RabbitMQ version 2.2.0.

2) a) Agent configuration (RabbitMQ 1.7.x and 1.8.x)

You need to enter the URL into the agent /etc/sd-agent/config.cfg file for the rabbitmq_status_url option. If your server's IP is 127.0.0.1 then this URL would be http://127.0.0.1:55672/json.

rabbitmq_status_url: http://127.0.0.1:55672/json
rabbitmq_user: guest
rabbitmq_pass: guest

2) b) Agent configuration (RabbitMQ 2.x)

You need to enter the URL into the agent /etc/sd-agent/config.cfg file for the rabbitmq_status_url option. If your server's IP is 127.0.0.1 then this URL would be http://127.0.0.1:55672/api/overview.

rabbitmq_status_url: http://127.0.0.1:55672/api/overview
rabbitmq_user: guest
rabbitmq_pass: guest

3) Restart agent

Restart the agent to start the monitoring.

4) Add graphs

Click the name of your server from the Devices list in your Server Density account then go to the Metrics tab. Click the + Graph button on the right then choose the MySQL metrics to display the graphs. The metrics will also be available to select when building dashboard graphs.