Management via a web plugin

After talking the details of the management of RabbitMQ using a command-line tool, we are now ready to talk about the management plugin. Management plugin is simply a web application that is written in Erlang. You can monitor and control RabbitMQ using the management web interface. Management plugin is provided as default by the RabbitMQ installation; however, you need to enable the management plugin to use it by performing the following steps:

  1. Enable the management plugin with the help of the rabbitmq-plugins command:
    rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
  2. You should restart the RabbitMQ Server with the following command:
    rabbitmqctl stop
rabbitmq-server
  3. Now, you are ready to open the management dashboard with ...

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