AMQP plugin

AMQP plugin

The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. AMQP plugin publishes metrics to the configured message broker in JSON format.

Configuration

<Amqp>
   <Publish Name="amqpPublisher" Host="localhost" Port="14504" VirtualHost="vhost" User="user" Password="abc" Exchange="exchange" RoutingKeyPrefix="collectd" />
</Amqp>

Properties

Name	Description
Name	Name of the AMQP publisher
Host	Message broker's host name
Port	Message broker's AMQP listening port
VirtualHost	The name of the "virtual host" (or vhost) that specifies the namespace for entities (exchanges and queues) referred to by the protocol. Virtual hosts provide a way to segregate applications using the same message broker instance.
User	User name for authentication
Password	Password for authentication
Exchange	Exchanges are AMQP entities where messages are sent. Exchanges take a message and route it into zero or more queues.
RoutingKeyPrefix	Message sent to message broker contains a routing key and message body. Routing key contains 6 fields separated by a period. RoutingKeyPrefix, Host, CollectdPlugin, CollectdPluginInstance, CollectdType and CollectdTypeInstance.