RabbitMQ Cookbook

Developing Python applications to monitor RabbitMQ

In this example we're going to create a Python script to monitor RabbitMQ using the JSON API that you can access from the URL http://localhost:15672/api/.

The scope of this example is to create a custom Python script, which performs some checks and sends an e-mail if it detects some errors. You can find the source code at Chapter03/Recipe07.

Getting ready

You need Python 2.7+ and the management plugin enabled (as we have seen in the Managing RabbitMQ from a browser recipe).

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to create a Python script to monitor RabbitMQ using the JSON API:

1. Import the following libraries:

   import sys
   import urllib2,base64
   import json
   import logging

2. Get the required RabbitMQ information ...