rabbitmq-zabbix

Template and checks to monitor rabbitmq queues and server via Zabbix.

WHY:

Because the SNMP plugin isn't an officially supported plugin, and rabbitmqctl based monitors are REALLY slow in comparison.

WHAT:

Set of python scripts, zabbix template, and associated data to do autodiscovery

HOW:

1. Install the files into /etc/zabbix/ folder, change permissions to Zabbix.
2. Setup configuration (see below)
3. Import the template to your zabbix server
4. Make sure zabbix_sender is installed
5. WARNING Watch your process timeout. I hit an issue with the amount of data and queues in rabbit where processing the results took longer than 3 seconds - that's the default timeout for the agent to kill a process. If I can switch to a file based push instead of calling send for each item, this will hopefully reduce the time to send even further
6. Restart the local zabbix agent

CONFIGURATION:

You may optionally create a .rab.auth file in the scripts/ directory. This file allows you to change default parameters. The format is VARIABLE=value, one per line: The default values are as follows:

USERNAME=guest
PASSWORD=guest
CONF=/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent.conf

You can also add a filter in this file to restrict which queues are monitored. This item is a JSON-encoded string. The format provides some flexibility for its use. You can either provide a single object or a list of objects to filter. The available keys are: status, node, name, consumers, vhost, durable, exclusive_consumer_tag, auto_delete, memory, policy

For example, the following filter could find all the durable queues: FILTER='{"durable": true}'

To only use the durable queues for a given vhost, the filter would be: FILTER='{"durable": true, "vhost": "mine"}'

To supply a list of queue names, the filter would be: FILTER='[{"name": "mytestqueuename"}, {"name": "queue2"}]'

At some point the filters may be improved to include regular expressions or "ignore these queues"

CHANGES

• Updated to use zabbix_sender to push data on request to an item request. This is similar to how the FromDual MySQL Zabbix stuff works and the concept was pulled from their templates.
• Updated the filters to handle a list of objects

Ideas for the future?

Add a local cache of the results (may be overkill for RabbitMQ). Feel free to submit changes or ideas - [email protected]

Definite kudos to some of the other developers around the web. In particular,

• Python Scripts: https://github.com/kmcminn/rabbit-nagios
• Base idea for the Rabbit template: https://github.com/alfss/zabbix-rabbitmq
• Also need to thank Lewis Franklin https://github.com/brolewis for his contributions!