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Your options for supporting legacy RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ 3.x support is ending – what are your options? TL;DR; Your options are:1. Upgrade now and stay on the supported path.2. Keep your legacy supported and make the upgrade manageable. How? Keep on reading!3. Risk losing support. What are your options for ongoing RabbitMQ support? Take a look at the options below that team…
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Why Is the RabbitMQ Disk Space Alarm Triggered and How Do You Fix It?
Why Is the RabbitMQ Disk Space Alarm Triggered and How Do You Fix It? A RabbitMQ disk alarm is one of the most disruptive incidents a broker can produce. When the alarm is active, every publishing connection in the cluster is blocked, not just on the affected node. Production traffic stops upstream, queues stop growing…
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RabbitMQ vs Redis: Choosing the Right Messaging System
RabbitMQ vs Redis: Choosing the Right Messaging System At first glance, comparing RabbitMQ and Redis Open Source Software (OSS) might seem like comparing apples and oranges. RabbitMQ is a dedicated message broker, whereas Redis OSS is an in-memory data store that also supports messaging. However, because both can support asynchronous communication in microservice architectures, they…
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What Common Mistakes Lead to RabbitMQ Message Loss and How Can You Prevent Them?
What Common Mistakes Lead to RabbitMQ Message Loss and How Can You Prevent Them? RabbitMQ does not lose messages on its own. Message loss almost always happens at the seams: between a publisher that thinks it sent a message and a broker that never received it, or between a broker that thinks it delivered a…
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What Are the Common Challenges Faced When Self-Supporting RabbitMQ?
What Are the Common Challenges Faced When Self-Supporting RabbitMQ? Self-supporting RabbitMQ is entirely viable. The broker is well-documented, the community is responsive, and most production deployments do not need exotic configuration. Teams hit trouble not because RabbitMQ is hard, but because the operational practice around it accumulates slowly while incident risk accumulates fast. Most self-support…
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What Are the Top 10 RabbitMQ Troubleshooting Issues?
What Are the Top 10 RabbitMQ Troubleshooting Issues? RabbitMQ often becomes one of the first systems to show strain when distributed applications scale. Because it sits between services and carries work across the system, problems such as growing queue backlogs, memory alarms, disk alarms, connection churn, and stalled consumers can quickly escalate into service-wide incidents.…
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RabbitMQ Commercial Support Specialist support for running RabbitMQ effectively.
RabbitMQ Commercial Support Specialist support for running RabbitMQ effectively. RabbitMQ is generally very reliable, but when something does go wrong, it can have a serious knock-on effect. Unfortunately, in many cases, teams only realise how critical this message broker is only once something stops working. That’s why having access to experienced RabbitMQ specialists is so…
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Navigating Support for Outdated RabbitMQ Versions: Risks, Options & Best Practices
Navigating Support for Outdated RabbitMQ Versions: Risks, Options & Best Practices Picture this: You’re running a customer-facing platform, like a check-out system or a fintech transaction processor, on an old RabbitMQ version (let’s say an unsupported 3.x release). Suddenly, a lot starts going wrong, queues are backed up, compliance becomes a concern, and the security…
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StreamMetrX: Get Direct Stream Observability with Our New Open Source RabbitMQ Plugin
StreamMetrX: Get Direct Stream Observability with Our New Open Source RabbitMQ Plugin We’ve been working on a RabbitMQ plugin to make stream observability significantly clearer and it’s now available as open source. You can install this to get clear, direct visibility into what your streams and consumers are doing in production without relying on the…
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RabbitMQ Health Inspector Guide
RabbitMQ Health Inspector Guide Everything is looking great…until a small issue turns into a big outage. A lot of the problems are buried in configuration details you rarely have time to review yourself. That’s why we created the RabbitMQ Health Inspector, a free tool that analyzes your cluster’s configuration against our battle-tested best practices. In…
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Why Continuing With RabbitMQ Is a Strong Strategic Choice
Why Continuing With RabbitMQ Is a Strong Strategic Choice RabbitMQ remains one of the most widely adopted and trusted open-source message brokers in the world. As the technology landscape shifts, especially with recent changes in Broadcom/VMware licensing, many organisations are reassessing their messaging platforms. This document outlines why RabbitMQ continues to be a resilient, future-proof…
