/collectd-rabbitmq-monitoring

A simple python plugin for collectd to monitor your Rabbitmq status

Primary LanguagePythonApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Collectd Rabbitmq Monitoring

collectd-rabbitmq-monitoring

Overview

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

Sample Graph

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