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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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Get Direct Stream Observability with Our New Open Source RabbitMQ Plugin
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 management…
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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…
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Migrating from Bitnami RabbitMQ: The Technical & Competitive Edge
Migrating from Bitnami RabbitMQ: The Technical & Competitive Edge Migrate to Superior, Data-Safe Architecture Bitnami’s announcement to deprecate or significantly alter its RabbitMQ Helm chart distribution has created operational uncertainty for many organisations. For some, this represents an unwelcome disruption. For forward-looking engineering leaders, however, it is a timely catalyst to address long-standing technical debt…
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Amazon MQ vs RabbitMQ:The Pros and Cons of Self-Managed vs Managed Message Brokers
Amazon MQ vs RabbitMQ: The Pros and Cons of Self-Managed vs Managed Message Brokers When building a distributed system, you need a way for the components to communicate with each other. The most common solution for this problem is a message broker. If you’re building on AWS—which, let’s face it, you probably are—you have two…
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RepliQ: keep RabbitMQ steady across zones
RepliQ: keep RabbitMQ steady across zones Seventh State RepliQ keeps your cluster sane. It spreads queue copies across zones and, when needed, grows or trims them to a simple target: three copies, one per zone. Once that’s safe, it nudges leaders so no single AZ gets hammered. It keeps doing this as things move around.…
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RabbitMQ 4.2 and SQL Filtering Progress, but Mind the Gotchas
RabbitMQ 4.2 and SQL Filtering Progress, but Mind the Gotchas RabbitMQ 4.2 is coming, and Broadcom are understandably excited. Like most releases, it’s packed with tech promises that can be brilliant if you know how to implement them safely. We help teams cut through the marketing and work out what’s production-ready and what isn’t. The…
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Is RabbitMQ Open Source? Do You Need a Commercial License?
Is RabbitMQ Open Source? Do You Need a Commercial License? RabbitMQ is one of the world’s most widely deployed open-source message brokers, built on a reliable Erlang foundation and designed to run across distributed nodes in your backend systems, handling message queues, message delivery, and high-throughput workloads across industries. But one of the most common…
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RabbitMQ Metrics For Beginners: Message Queue Monitoring Guide
Beginner’s Guide to RabbitMQ Metrics: Your First Step to Message Queue Monitoring Monitoring is the heartbeat of any production system, and RabbitMQ is no exception. Whether you’re just starting your journey with message queues or looking to improve your existing RabbitMQ deployment, understanding metrics is crucial for maintaining healthy, performant systems. In this beginner’s guide,…
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Understanding RabbitMQ Architecture: The Message Broker’s Queues, Exchanges, and Other Components
Understanding RabbitMQ Architecture: The Message Broker’s Queues, Exchanges, and Other Components So, you’re planning to build an application that uses microservices to make it faster and more scalable. You’ve been considering various message brokers when you come across RabbitMQ. Everything you read about it says the RabbitMQ architecture is extremely suitable for distributed, concurrent, and…
