S01E07: How to monitor RabbitMQ?

[gerhard]

TGIR S01E07: How to monitor RabbitMQ?

• Proposed via rabbitmq/tgir#17
• Hosted by @gerhardlazu & @MichalKuratczyk
• Published on: 2020-10-30

You have a few RabbitMQ deployments running (on Kubernetes). How do you monitor them? You have heard of the great Grafana dashboards that team RabbitMQ maintains, maybe from this RabbitMQ Summit 2019 talk or from the official Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana guide. But how do you actually set them up?

For speed and convenience, we spin up a K3S instance on a Linux host and do the following:

• integrate K3S with Prometheus & Grafana, all running inside K3S
• deploy a few RabbitMQ clusters together with workloads
• cover the most important Grafana dashboards that we maintain by looking at the above workloads

You may follow along on any Linux host, including a VM running on your macOS or Windows host. We had some credits with Equinix Metal that we wanted to put to good use.

Closes #17

[gerhard]

Scheduled to go live in a number of hours, after it gets converted to HD and maybe even 4K.