A RabbitMQ health check is a comprehensive assessment of your RabbitMQ setup to ensure it is running optimally. It involves checking system performance, identifying potential issues, and making recommendations to improve reliability and efficiency. A health check helps prevent downtime, improves message throughput, and ensures your messaging infrastructure scales effectively with your business needs while utilizing rabbitmq-diagnostics for ongoing monitoring.

You should consider a RabbitMQ health check if you experience:

• Slow message processing or queue buildup
• Frequent connection drops or unresponsive consumers
• High CPU or memory usage on RabbitMQ nodes
• Unexplained message loss or duplicate messages
• Issues scaling RabbitMQ to handle increased traffic
• Unexpected system crashes or RabbitMQ restarts

Even if your system appears stable, a periodic health check can help identify hidden inefficiencies before they become major issues.

A health check can help identify a number of issues, including, but not limited to: 

• Misconfigured clustering and high availability settings
• Inefficient queue design leading to bottlenecks
• Unoptimised message routing and exchange usage
• Excessive resource consumption (CPU, memory, disk I/O)
• Security vulnerabilities and improper authentication setups
• Improper client connection handling (e.g., too many open channels)
• Lack of monitoring and alerting for RabbitMQ health metrics

During a health check, our team of experts will set up a friendly call to walk through your current setup, we’ll likely ask you to show us your management interface and your configuration settings etc. After this, we’ll ask you to share the output of a few commands and logs from the last 3 months, with this information we’ll get to work building your RAG status report, highlighting what needs to be implemented right away, what needs implementing soon and other more advisory items for best practices. 

A health check typically takes 2-5 days depending on your setup. 

To make the most of your RabbitMQ health check, we advise: 

• Identify key stakeholders who can discuss business and technical requirements
• Preparing config files and logs
• Share details about your applications messaging patterns/walk us through your management interface 
• Outline any performance issues or recurring bugs 
• Ensure RabbitMQ monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) are accessible

Yes! A health check helps optimise message flow, reduce resource consumption, and fine-tune your RabbitMQ configuration for maximum efficiency. We identify areas where your setup can be improved, leading to better performance and reliability.

Absolutely. We analyse your current RabbitMQ deployment and recommend strategies for scaling, whether you’re handling more messages, increasing consumers, or implementing high availability across multiple data centers.

Yes, a health check focuses on identifying and resolving bottlenecks, such as:

• Inefficient message routing and bindings
• Slow consumer processing
• Inefficient queue usage
• Excessive message TTL and dead-lettering issues
• High resource usage due to misconfigured settings

Yes! Many outages result from misconfigurations, lack of redundancy, or unoptimised resource usage. A health check identifies and mitigates risks before they cause system failures, ensuring continuous uptime and reliability.

Yes, we ensure that your RabbitMQ setup follows best practices for security, high availability, and data integrity, helping you meet industry standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

If we find issues, we provide:

• Ongoing support options for long-term stability

• A detailed RAG status report outlining the problems and their impact

• Recommended solutions with step-by-step guidance