NAME

       check_rabbitmq_queue - Nagios plugin using RabbitMQ management API to count the messages pending and
       consumers on a given queue

SYNOPSIS

       check_rabbitmq_overview [options] -H hostname

DESCRIPTION

       Use the management interface of RabbitMQ to count the number of pending, ready and unacknowledged
       messages and number of consumers.  These are published as performance metrics for the check.

       Critical and warning thresholds can be set for each of the metrics.

       It uses Monitoring::Plugin and accepts all standard Nagios options.

OPTIONS

       -h | --help
           Display help text

       -v | --verbose
           Verbose output

       -t | --timeout
           Set a timeout for the check in seconds

       -H | --hostname | --host
           The host to connect to

       --port
           The port to connect to (default: 55672)

       --ssl
           Use SSL when connecting (default: false)

       --username | --user
           The user to connect as (default: guest)

       --pass
           The password for the user (default: guest)

       -w | --warning
           The warning levels for each count of messages, messages_ready, messages_unacknowledged and consumers.
           This field consists of one to four comma-separated thresholds.  Specify -1 if no threshold for a
           particular count.

       -c | --critical
           The critical levels for each count of messages, messages_ready, messages_unacknowledged and
           consumers.  This field consists of one to four comma-separated thresholds.  Specify -1 if no
           threshold for a particular count.

THRESHOLD FORMAT

       The format of thresholds specified in --warning and --critical arguments is defined at
       <http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT>.

       For example to be crtical if more than 100 messages, more than 90 messages_ready, more than 20
       messages_unacknowledged or no fewer than 10 consumers use

       --critical=100,90,20,10:

EXAMPLES

       The defaults all work with a standard fresh install of RabbitMQ, and all that is needed is to specify the
       host to connect to:

           check_rabbitmq_queue -H rabbit.example.com

       This returns a standard Nagios result:

           RABBITMQ_OVERVIEW OK - messages OK (25794) messages_ready OK (22971)
             messages_unacknowledged OK (2823) consumers OK (10) | messages=25794;;
             messages_ready=22971;; messages_unacknowledged=2823;; consumers=10;;

ERRORS

       The check tries to provide useful error messages on the status line for standard error conditions.

       Otherwise it returns the HTTP Error message returned by the management interface.

EXIT STATUS

       Returns zero if check is OK otherwise returns standard Nagios exit codes to signify WARNING, UNKNOWN or
       CRITICAL state.

SEE ALSO

       See Monitoring::Plugin(3)

       The RabbitMQ management plugin is described at http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html

LICENSE

       This file is part of nagios-plugins-rabbitmq.

       Copyright 2010, Platform 14.

       Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
       compliance with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

       Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is
       distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
       See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

AUTHOR

       James Casey <jamesc.000@gmail.com>