Collectd Rabbitmq Monitoring

Overview

This plugin provides metrics from a running Rabbitmq cluster via the rabbitmq management plugin API.

Sample Graph

Configuration

1. Assuming you have collectd installed already, append the following plugin details to your collectd.conf config file. Adjust the configuration items (interval, host, port, username, password, message_count) as you see fit.

   ```
   <LoadPlugin python>
     Globals true
   </LoadPlugin>
   
   <Plugin python>
     LogTraces true
     Interactive false
     Import "collectd_rabbitmq_monitoring"
     <Module collectd_rabbitmq_monitoring>
       # Adjust these parameters for your install:
       interval 10
       host "overcloud-controller-0.internalapi.localdomain"
       port 15672
       username guest
       password guest
       # Omit message_count if you do not want to count any messages on
       # specific queues.
       message_count "metering.sample" "notifications.info"
     </Module>
   </Plugin>
   ```
   

2. Install the Rabbitmq management plugin

   ```
   [root@overcloud-controller-0 ~]# rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
   ```
   

3. Install plugin

   ```
   [root@overcloud-controller-0 ~]# pip install collectd-rabbitmq-monitoring
   ```
   

4. Restart collectd

   [root@overcloud-controller-0 ~]# systemctl restart collectd
   

5. View metrics on Rabbitmq in your TSDB

Resources

1. Rabbitmq.com
2. Collectd.org