RabbitMQ Integration

Learn about the Wavefront RabbitMQ Integration.

RabbitMQ Integration

RabbitMQ is a popular open source message broker. This integration installs and configures Telegraf to send RabbitMQ metrics into Wavefront. Telegraf is a light-weight server process capable of collecting, processing, aggregating, and sending metrics to a Wavefront proxy.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here’s the node section of a dashboard displaying RabbitMQ metrics:

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To see a list of the metrics for this integration, select the integration from https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs.

RabbitMQ Setup

Note: If you use vRealize Operations, the application proxy agent sets up the integration for you. See the setup instructions. Otherwise, follow the setup steps on this page.

Step 1. Install the Telegraf Agent

This integration uses the RabbitMQ input plugin for Telegraf. If you’ve already installed Telegraf on your server(s), you can skip to Step 2.

Log in to your Wavefront instance and follow the instructions in the Setup tab to install Telegraf and a Wavefront proxy in your environment. If a proxy is already running in your environment, you can select that proxy and the Telegraf install command connects with that proxy. Sign up for a free trial to check it out!

Step 2. Enable the RabbitMQ Management Plugin

This integration requires the RabbitMQ Management Plugin to be enabled on the RabbitMQ server.

To enable the management plugin:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Step 3. Configure RabbitMQ Input Plugin

Create a file called rabbitmq.conf in /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d and enter the following snippet:

 [[inputs.rabbitmq]]
  url = "http://your.rabbitmq.server:15672"
  username = "guest"
  password = "guest"

Modify the url, username and password properties appropriately.

Note: The RabbitMQ Management API is accessed over port 15672 by default. Modify the port in the url if different.

To monitor specific nodes, include the nodes property. For example:

  nodes = ["rabbit@node1", "rabbit@node2"]

If not specified metrics for all nodes are gathered.

Configure additional [[inputs.rabbitmq]] entries to monitor multiple RabbitMQ instances.

Step 4. Restart Telegraf

Run sudo service telegraf restart to restart your agent.