RabbitMQ Error while retrieving data from rabbitHost

[Wilhelamm]

Hi guys, I'm getting this error when I try to get the metrics of the rabbit exporter, I'm using an administrator user to log in to the exporter.

time="2023-07-27T12:47:21Z" level=error msg="Error while retrieving data from rabbitHost" error="<nil>" host="http://10.216.1.31:15672" statusCode=401

[Dgotlieb]

@Wilhelamm I had the same issue when I was using the HELM chart.

For some reason when passing the username and password under the rabbitmq object in the values.yaml as described in the doc I was getting 401.

It started working as soon as I started using environment variables with a ConfigMap object as described here

So it should look like that..

values.yaml:

  rabbitmq:
    configMapOverrideReference: "rabbitmq-exporter-cm" # --> your configmap

configmap.yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: rabbitmq-exporter-cm
data:
  RABBIT_URL: "http://<RABBIT_ADDRESS>:15672"
  RABBIT_USER: "guest"
  RABBIT_PASSWORD: "guest"

Perhaps you are not using K8S, but passing the variables as environment variables will probably have the same effect

[Wilhelamm]

@Dgotlieb OMG it worked like a charm, thank you for your help, I was searching for two days to fix it, thanks a lot.
Best regards!