[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ SNMP Plugin Updates: Now with a counter for total messages delivered to queues

Fri Feb 12 17:15:15 GMT 2010

Scott,

Scott Brooks wrote:
> I've updated the RabbitMQ SNMP plugin available at
> http://github.com/epicadvertising/rabbitmq_snmp_plugin
> 
> Highlights: 
> Tracing delivery messages to queues so you can pull the total number
> of messages delivered.

I see you are using erlang:trace for that. Neat! Ultimately I don't 
think we'll go that route for high-churn stats like message counts, 
since tracing is probably not sufficiently efficient for that. And, as 
you say, it is brittle w.r.t. broker API changes. But until we have 
baked better stats gathering into the broker core, erlang:trace is hard 
to beat in terms of concision and non-intrusiveness.

Regards,

Matthias.