[rabbitmq-discuss] A project I've been working on

[Jason J. W. Williams]

I think this is really cool, and I like the ability to wire tap the going
ons of Rabbit without touching the original program. I'd lean towards having
this be a plugin.

-J

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Alvaro Videla <videlalvaro at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Lately I've been working on a project to improve the monitoring and
> administration tools for RabbitMQ.
>
> So for example, we have an RPC setup. We would like to know how many
> messages is the RPC processing per minute, what's the fastest reply it
> generated, what was the slowest one, and so on.
>
> I've implemented a process that can watch the RPC Server and produce some
> statistics based on the collected information.
>
> Another interesting use case is to be able to log or inspect the messages
> send to a consumer, say if you want to do that during a certain period of
> time where we want to debug the application. Once we have debugged it, we
> would like to remove the *inspection* step and send the messages to the
> final destination directly to avoid overhead. Of course we don't want to
> stop the producer or consumer applications and change the code to accomplish
> that.
>
> I think this can be really helpful when monitoring message flow across the
> network. I'm basing my implementation on the patterns explained in the
> "Enterprise Integration Patterns" book.
>
> I've created very basic demo videos where I showcase what my proof of
> concept can do so far.
>
> In the first video I implement the Smart Proxy pattern(
> http://www.eaipatterns.com/SmartProxy.html), where I track the messages on
> a RPC setup and generate stats based on them.
>
> http://vimeo.com/20966661
>
> On the second video I implement the Detour pattern(
> http://www.eaipatterns.com/Detour.html), that I use to detour messages, to
> be able to introduce inspection steps.
>
> http://vimeo.com/20966841
>
> Both the Detour Process and Smart Proxy process are controlled via a
> Control Bus that tells them to become active, to listen on an exchange and
> publish to another exchange and so on.
>
> I would like to get your feedback about what do you think regarding the
> "usefulness" of this project.
>
> I know the web interface that it has now is pretty ugly and everything
> looks very geeky now, but I think the main idea of having a Web based
> Control bus where we can activate/deactivate consumers and so on is quite
> interesting.
>
> Looking forward for your feedback,
>
> Alvaro
>
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