Integration

RabbitMQ

Messages ready and unacknowledged, publish and deliver rates, consumers and the log.

Category: Message brokers
How data is sent: Logthread Agent
Runs on: Linux
Status: Beta

How it works#

Answer a few questions. They only fill in the setup steps. Nothing on this page connects to your servers: Logthread never reaches into your network.
Run one command on the RabbitMQ machine. The next page shows the command with this connector's ingest key filled in. It downloads the Logthread Agent from downloads.logthread.com and installs it as a service (Linux, as root with sudo). No other download.
Data arrives. Everything is collected inside your environment. It is sent over outbound HTTPS (port 443) to ingest.logthread.com. Nothing is opened to the internet: no inbound ports, VPN or public access to your servers. The connection page shows what has arrived and turns Active with the first record.

What you answer#

Question	Answer	Notes
This host reads the cluster metrics	Yes or no	Turn it on for one host per cluster, and off on the others: they send their logs only, so nothing is counted twice. Default: `Yes`.
Management API (optional)	Text	Default: http://localhost:15672.
Log file (optional)	Text	Default: /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@*.log.
Labels (optional)	Text	For Fleet and filtering, for example env=prod.
Manage this agent from Fleet	Yes or no	Change its configuration from Logthread later without logging in to the host. Default: `Yes`.

Setup#

These are the steps for the default answers. In the app, they follow your answers, and the connector's ingest key replaces YOUR_INGEST_KEY.

Step 1. Create a monitoring user. The monitoring tag reads statistics only; the agent never reads or acknowledges messages.

On a RabbitMQ node:

sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management  # the HTTP API the agent reads
sudo rabbitmqctl add_user logthread_agent  # asks for a password; choose a strong one
sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags logthread_agent monitoring
# per virtual host whose queues you want to see:
sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / logthread_agent "" "" ".*"

Step 2. Install the Logthread Agent. On a RabbitMQ node: it installs the agent with the RabbitMQ and Linux host profiles. It reads every queue's message counts and rates every 30 seconds, and the node log. It asks for the password (hidden, not kept in your shell history) and writes it to a file only root can read.

curl -sSL https://downloads.logthread.com/agent/install.sh | sudo sh -s -- \
  --key YOUR_INGEST_KEY --profiles linux-host,rabbitmq --fleet
printf 'Password of logthread_agent: '; stty -echo; read -r LT_PASSWORD; stty echo; echo
sudo tee -a /etc/logthread-agent/agent.env >/dev/null <<EOF
LOGTHREAD_RABBITMQ_USER=logthread_agent
LOGTHREAD_RABBITMQ_PASSWORD=$LT_PASSWORD
EOF
unset LT_PASSWORD
sudo systemctl restart logthread-agent

Step 3. Wait for data. Metrics arrive within a minute; log lines as the node writes them.

Check that it works#

The connection page under Integrations counts what has arrived and turns Active with the first record. In Explore, search service:rabbitmq.

Then add#

Each is one click on the connection page and opens with your data, so you can check it before saving.

Dashboard: RabbitMQ: Messages ready and unacknowledged, publish, deliver and acknowledge rates, consumers per queue and node log warnings and errors.
Alert: RabbitMQ errors: service:rabbitmq severity:(error|fatal), at least 5 in 10 minutes
Alert: RabbitMQ resource alarms: service:rabbitmq "alarm set", at least 1 in 10 minutes

Set it up under Integrations in the app, or from an AI agent with MCP (add_integration). All integrations: Integrations guide. Next: find what it sends in Explore and live tail.