<div dir="auto"><div>Yes, fully agree with Graham. I do rabbitmqctl queue_purge notifications.* In cron every hour + add policy to remove them after 1 min...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also double check other queues:</div><div dir="auto">rabbitmqctl list_qeues | awk '{if($2>5)print $0}' or smth like that.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 20:17 Graham Hayes, <<a href="mailto:gr@ham.ie">gr@ham.ie</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 21/10/2019 17:54, Albert Braden wrote:<br>
> I installed the RMQ management plugin in my dev and qa clusters and<br>
> noticed a queue called <a href="http://notifications.info" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">notifications.info</a> that has 0 consumers:<br>
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> root@us01odc-qa-ctrl1:~# rabbitmqctl list_queues|grep notific<br>
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> <a href="http://notifications.info" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">notifications.info</a> 15496<br>
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> If I cold-start RMQ it starts without a <a href="http://notifications.info" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">notifications.info</a> queue but<br>
> after I create a VM it appears with 1 or 2 messages and then gradually<br>
> grows over time. The messages in it appear to be Openstack operations:<br>
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> I didn’t install the management plugin in prod, but it appears that I<br>
> have the same issue there:<br>
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> root@us01odc-p01-ctrl1:~# rabbitmqctl list_queues|grep notific<br>
> <br>
> <a href="http://notifications.info" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">notifications.info</a> 226869<br>
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> What should be consuming the <a href="http://notifications.info" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">notifications.info</a> queue?<br>
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Usually something like ceilometer or other telemetry projects,<br>
or projects like Designate and searchlight that don't always have hooks<br>
into nova or neutron, or custom tooling.<br>
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If nothing is consuming them,. you can either set the ttl on the<br>
RMQ queue [1] to something small (just in case you want to look at them)<br>
or disable them [2]<br>
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1 - <a href="https://www.rabbitmq.com/ttl.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rabbitmq.com/ttl.html</a><br>
2 - e.g. in Nova<br>
<a href="https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/reference/notifications.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/reference/notifications.html</a><br>
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