Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1290256
[RFE][OpsTools] We need a check for growing rabbitMQ queues
Last modified: 2018-06-15 10:17:40 EDT
Description of problem: We need to provide an alert when RabbitMQ queues are growing in our availability monitoring solution. Use case: As an operator, if the number of messages in my rabbitMQ queue keeps on growing, that's a clear indication that something is going wrong in my setup and I need to be notified of it Satisfaction criteria: - a check is implemented - checks are deployed for each Rabbit queues - alert are sent when queues are growing
A script to put rabbit queue lengths into collect: INTERVAL="${COLLECTD_INTERVAL:-10}" while sleep $INTERVAL; do sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '{ s+=+$2} END {print "PUTVAL rabbitmq/queues " s}' done
Just "rabbitmqctl list_queues" will not show messages taken by an application but not yet ack by the application. Maybe you should pass what kind of message you want, for example: rabbitmqctl list_queues messages_ready messages_unacknowledged