RabbitMQ receiver 🔗

The RabbitMQ receiver fetches stats from a RabbitMQ node using the RabbitMQ Management Plugin. For more information on the plugin refer to RabbitMQ’s documentation at Management Plugin . The supported pipeline is metrics. See Process your data with pipelines for more information.

Note

Out-of-the-box dashboards and navigators aren’t supported for the RabbitMQ receiver yet, but are planned for a future release.

Prerequisites 🔗

The following applies:

This receiver supports RabbitMQ versions 3.8 and 3.9.
To enable the RabbitMQ Management Plugin, follow the official instructions as described in RabbitMQ Getting Started .
You need at least monitoring level permissions to monitor. Read more at RabbitMQ permissions .

Get started 🔗

Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the receiver creator receiver as described in the next section.
Restart the Collector.

Sample configuration 🔗

To activate the RabbitMQ receiver, add rabbitmq to the receivers section of your configuration file, as shown in the following example:

receivers:
  rabbitmq:
    endpoint: http://localhost:15672
    username: otelu
    password: ${env:RABBITMQ_PASSWORD}
    collection_interval: 10s

To complete the configuration, include the receiver in the metrics pipeline of the service section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [rabbitmq]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following settings are required:

username
password

The following settings are optional:

endpoint. http://localhost:15672 by default. The URL of the node to be monitored.
collection_interval. 10s by default. This receiver collects metrics on an interval. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h.
tls. TLS control. By default insecure settings are rejected and certificate verification is on. Learn more about the default settings at TLS Configuration Settings in GitHub.

Settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Redis receiver:

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics, resource attributes, and attributes are available.

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal .
Contact Splunk Support .

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .
Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.

This page was last updated on Sep 18, 2024.

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