How to obtain RabbitMQ queue information for troubleshooting or monitoring purposes

Abiquo uses RabbitMQ as message broker. You can read more about Abiquo Arquitecture in the Abiquo Wiki.

Sometimes, for troubleshooting or monitoring purposes it is interesting to have a look at the RabbitMQ queues for Abiquo.
You can use this command to obtain the related information:

rabbitmqctl list_queues name messages consumers

Output example:

# rabbitmqctl list_queues name messages consumers
Listing queues ...
abiquo.vsm.eventsynk 0 1
abiquo.tracer.traces 0 1
abiquo.datacenter.requests.Abiquo.virtualfactory 0 1
abiquo.ha.tasks 0 1
abiquo.am.downloads 0 1
abiquo.datacenter.requests.Abiquo.bpm 0 1
abiquo.datacenter.notifications 0 1
...done.

You can see the queues, messages pending to be processed and consumers. Each queue in use must have a consumer and in an environment with no operations being carried out, messages should be 0.