RabbitMQ Management and Configuration

While creating a RabbitMQ proxy service with WSO2 ESB, I googled a bit about management aspects of RabbitMQ and complied this post as a future reference.

I took the easiest way to install RabbitMQ by using a .deb downloaded from here[1]. Found that there are two main configuration files in RabbitMQ, rabbitmq-env.conf is to set up environment related details and rabbitmq.config to configure RabbitMQ core application, Erlang services and RabbitMQ plug-ins.But the most important fact to keep in mind is that these configuration files are not created by default.

For my purpose of moving from default port 5672 to 8080, I have created /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config file with the following content.

[ {rabbit, [{tcp_listeners, [8080]}]} ].

Then start/restart RabbitMQ server with the following command.

sudo service rabbitmq-server start

Since I haven't change any environment specific configurations yet, I can use the default RabbitMQ startup log to monitor startup process with following command.

tail -f /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log

For easy management and configuration RabbitMQ do have a nice web UI. But you have to activate rabbitmq_management plugin in-order-to access it.

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Then,browse http://localhost:15672/#/ or if you have already changed the port same as me http://localhost:18080/#/.

For more information you can find out official documentation here[2].
 
[1]. http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.0.2/
[2]. https://www.rabbitmq.com/