chapter ten

Chapter 10. Monitoring: Houston, we have a problem

This chapter covers

Basics of writing Nagios health checks
Using both AMQP and the REST API to monitor Rabbit internals
Verifying that Rabbit is available and responding
Watching queue levels for early detection of consumer problems
Checking for undesirable configuration changes in the messaging fabric

10.1. RabbitMQ monitoring: keeping an eye on your warren

10.2. Making sure consumers are consuming

10.3. Summary

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