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Monitor RabbitMQ queues and exchanges

rjlohan — Mon, 11 May 2015 04:43:09 GMT

I am interested in using Splunk to monitor queue depths and message timings on a RabbitMQ install. I've found the AMQP modular input plugin, but it seems that this plugin actually pulls messages from the queues, which I don't want to do. The rabbit management UI has some ootb graph widgets which would be useful, but I'd like to provide a single dashboard for monitoring this data in Splunk.

What's the best way to approach this scenario? Is this plugin correct? Do I need to observe the Rabbit logs (they are pretty verbose and would consume a fair chunk of index volume)

Re: Monitor RabbitMQ queues and exchanges

Damien_Dallimor — Mon, 11 May 2015 05:08:52 GMT

To monitor RabbitMQ metrics , you could install the RabbitMQ HTTP Management plugin ,and then use the REST API Modular Input to monitor the management endpoints that have the metrics that you are interested in.

Re: Monitor RabbitMQ queues and exchanges

rjlohan — Mon, 11 May 2015 05:25:28 GMT

Thanks Damien, I'll take a look.