After talking the details of the management of RabbitMQ using a command-line tool, we are now ready to talk about the management plugin. Management plugin is simply a web application that is written in Erlang. You can monitor and control RabbitMQ using the management web interface. Management plugin is provided as default by the RabbitMQ installation; however, you need to enable the management plugin to use it by performing the following steps:
Enable the management plugin with the help of the
rabbitmq-plugins
command:rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
You should restart the RabbitMQ Server with the following command:
rabbitmqctl stop rabbitmq-server
Now, you are ready to open the management dashboard with the following URL:
http://{your-ip-address}:15672/
The RabbitMQ server gives you a default username and password, that is,
guest:guest
. Note thatguest:guest
won't work for remote a RabbitMQ server later than version 3.3.
After locating the, management...