Enable Broker API on RabbitMQ

8 Dec 2015

I had some issue when installing flower last week, Flower always failed to inspect the broker. It turn out I need to enable the RabbitMQ management and set the user for management/broker api.

Maybe this could help someone out there with the same issue.

Setup user and virtual host

Create a new user and virtual host for your project.

# Add user
$ sudo rabbitmqctl add_user <username> <password>
# Add virtual host
$ sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost <virtualhost>
#Grant permission
$ sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p <virtualhost> <username> ".*" ".*" ".*"

Please change <username>, <password>, <virtualhost> with your own credential.

Enable Broker API

All we need to do is enable the rabbitmq_management and set a previous user for it.

$ sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
$ sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags <username> management
$ sudo service rabbitmq-server restart

You should see some information on Celery Broker tab now.