RabbitMQ Production

Index for running RabbitMQ 4.x in production: version and upgrade gates, delivery patterns, sizing and monitoring thresholds, security hardening. References hold the full write-ups; canonical reference lives at https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs.

Scope

The rabbitmq-expert agent covers exchange types, queue topology design, clustering and HA, protocols, and first-aid diagnostics inline. This skill supplies what the agent defers here: version-specific upgrade gates, sizing and monitoring thresholds, full delivery-pattern write-ups, and security hardening. Load the matching reference below instead of reasoning from general RabbitMQ knowledge; defaults and limits change materially between minor versions.

When to use

• Planning or executing a RabbitMQ upgrade across major or minor versions
• Choosing a queue type for a new workload (classic, quorum, stream)
• Implementing a delivery pattern (retry, outbox, idempotency, RPC)
• Sizing a cluster or setting monitoring thresholds and alarms
• Hardening a broker for TLS or multi-tenancy
• Diagnosing an operational incident beyond first-aid rabbitmqctl checks

How to use this skill