RabbitMQ Message Timestamp Plugin

This plugin fills the timestamp property of a message as it enters RabbitMQ with the current (server node) timestamp value.

Supported RabbitMQ Versions

This plugin targets RabbitMQ 3.6.0 and later versions.

Installing

Clone the repo and then build it with make:

git clone git@github.com:rabbitmq/rabbitmq-message-timestamp.git
# [snip]
cd rabbitmq-message-timestamp
make
# [snip]
make dist
# [snip]
ls plugins/*

Build artefacts then can be found under the plugins directory.

Finally copy all the *.ez files inside the dist folder to the $RABBITMQ_HOME/plugins folder. Don't copy the file rabbit_common-x.y.z since it's already part of RabbitMQ distribution.

Usage

Just enable the plugin with the following command:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_message_timestamp

The plugin will then hook into the basic.publish process in order to add the current timestamp as seen by the broker.

Limitations

The plugin hooks into the basic.publish path, so expect a small throughput reduction when using this plugin, since it has to modify every message that crosses RabbitMQ.

If there's enough demand, we could add in the future a way for only time-stamping messages that crosses certain exchanges, say by applying policies.

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