[rabbitmq-discuss] Limit number of concurrent connections

Thu May 22 09:53:09 BST 2014

On 22/05/14 09:48, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 21/05/2014 18:12, Navdeep Singh wrote:
>> Kindly let me know how can I limit the number of simultaneous
>> connections in RabbitMQ. Is there a way to do it and if yes how it can
>> be achived. Kindly look at cloudamqp.com <http://cloudamqp.com> who are
>> able to do it by limiting 3 connections for free plan.
>
> You'd need to do it with an external agent polling the management API or
> listening to the events exchange and then closing connections which are
> over the limit. There's no other way I'm afraid.

Or connect via a sufficiently smart proxy.

Matthias.