Monitoring rabbitmq server 2.5.1. with monit
Simple task like setting up monitoring with monit for rabbit mq include two parts: 1) As discussed here Modify /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server
- The following are added to the start function:
- pid=`/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl status | perl -n -e'/{pid,(\d+)/ && print
- $1'`
- echo $pid > /var/run/rabbitmq.pid
- Right before:
- echo SUCCESS
- The pid file is deleted within the stop function:
- rm /var/run/rabbitmq.pid
- right after,
- if [ $RETVAL = 0 ] ; then
2) Add this to monit configuration file:
- ### rabbitmq-server
- check process rabbitmq-server with pidfile /var/run/rabbitmq.pid
- group rabbitmq
- start program "/etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start"
- stop program "/etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop"
- if failed port 5672 type tcp then restart
- if 3 restarts within 3 cycles then timeout
