Delete all the queues from RabbitMQ

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I installed rabbitmqadmin and was able to list all the exchanges and queues  How can I use rabbitmqadmin or rabbitmqctl to delete all the queues

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For whose have a problem with installing rabbitmqadmin, You should firstly install python.

UNIX-like operating system users need to copy rabbitmqadmin to a directory in PATH, e.g. /usr/local/bin.

Windows users will need to ensure Python is on their PATH, and invoke rabbitmqadmin as python.exe rabbitmqadmin.

Then

Browse to http://{hostname}:15672/cli/rabbitmqadmin to download.
Go to the containing folder then run cmd with administrator privilege

To list Queues python rabbitmqadmin list queues.

To delete Queue python rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=Name_of_queue

To Delete all Queues

1- Declare Policy

python rabbitmqadmin declare policy name='expire_all_policies' pattern=.* definition={\"expires\":1} apply-to=queues

2- Remove the policy

python rabbitmqadmin  delete policy name='expire_all_policies'

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If you re trying to delete queues because they re unused and you don t want to reset  one option is to set the queue TTL very low via a policy  wait for the queues to be auto-deleted once the TTL is passed and then remove the policy  https   www rabbitmq com ttl html    rabbitmqctl bat set policy delq         expires   1   --apply-to queues   To remove the policy  rabbitmqctl clear policy delq   Note that this only works for unused queues  Original info here  http   rabbitmq 1065348 n5 nabble com Deleting-all-queues-in-rabbitmq-td30933 html

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You need not reset rabbitmq server to delete non-durable queues  Simply stop the server and start again and it will remove all the non-durable queues available

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Here is a faster version  using parallel install sudo apt-get install parallel  expanding on the excellent answer by  admenva   parallel  -j 50 rabbitmqadmin -H YOUR HOST OR LOCALHOST -q delete queue name          rabbitmqadmin -H  YOUR HOST OR LOCALHOST -f tsv -q list queues name

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In Rabbit version 3 7 10 you can run below command with root permission   rabbitmqctl list queues   awk    print  1      xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl delete queue

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To list queues     rabbitmqadmin -f tsv -q list queues   To delete a queue     rabbitmqadmin delete queue name name of queue

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This commands deletes all your queues  python rabbitmqadmin py     -H YOURHOST -u guest -p guest -f bash list queues     xargs -n1     xargs -I       python rabbitmqadmin py -H YOURHOST -u guest -p guest delete queue name      This script is super simple because it uses -f bash  which outputs the queues as a list   Then we use xargs -n1 to split that up into multiple variables  Then we use xargs -I   that will run the command following  and replace    in the command

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I tried the above pieces of code but I did not do any streaming    sudo rabbitmqctl list queues   awk   print  1    gt  queues txt  for line in   cat queues txt   do sudo rabbitmqctl delete queue   line   done    I generate a file that contains all the queue names and loops through it line by line to the delete them  For the loops  while read     did not do it for me  It was always stopping at the first queue name

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With rabbitmqadmin you can remove them with this one-liner   rabbitmqadmin -f tsv -q list queues name   while read queue  do rabbitmqadmin -q delete queue name   queue   done

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In case you only want to purge the queues which are not empty  a lot faster    rabbitmqctl list queues   awk   2  0   print  1      sed  s Listing      xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge queue   For me  it takes 2-3 seconds to purge a queue  both empty and non-empty ones   so iterating through 50 queues is such a pain while I just need to purge 10 of them  40 50 are empty

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I made a deleteRabbitMqQs sh  which accepts arguments to search the list of queues for  selecting only ones matching the pattern you want  If you offer no arguments  it will delete them all  It shows you the list of queues its about to delete  letting you quit before doing anything destructive   for word in      do         args true         newQueues   rabbitmqctl list queues name   grep   word           queues   queues  newQueues  done if      -eq 0    then         queues   rabbitmqctl list queues name   grep -v           fi  queues   echo   queues    sed       space      d    if    x queues      x     then         echo  No queues to delete  giving up           exit 0 fi  read -p  Deleting the following queues    queues   CTRL C quit   ENTER proceed     while read -r line  do         rabbitmqadmin delete queue name   line  done  lt  lt  lt    queues    If you want different matching against the arguments you pass in  you can alter the grep in line four  When deleting all queues  it won t delete ones with three consecutive spaces in them  because I figured that eventuality would be rarer than people who have rabbitmqctl printing its output out in different languages   Enjoy

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Here is a way to do it with PowerShell  the URL may need to be updated   cred   Get-Credential  iwr -ContentType  application json  -Method Get -Credential  cred    http   localhost 15672 api queues             ConvertFrom-Json     Content                       messages -gt 0            iwr  -method DELETE -Credential  cred  -uri     http   localhost 15672 api queues  0   1   -f   System Web HttpUtility   UrlEncode    vhost       name

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Actually super easy with management plugin and policies   Goto Management Console  localhost 15672   Goto Admin tab  Goto Policies tab on the right side   Add Policy  Fill Fields  Virtual Host  Select Name  Expire All Policies Delete Later  Pattern     Apply to  Queues Definition  expires with value 1  change type from String to Number    Save  Checkout Queues tab again  All Queues must be deleted  And don t forget to remove policy

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If you don t have rabbitmqadmin installed  try to purge queues with rabbitmqctl    rabbitmqctl list queues   awk    print  1      xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge queue

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rabbitmqadmin list queues awk  NR gt 3 print  4   head -n-1 xargs -I qname rabbitmqadmin delete queue name qname

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Removing all queues using rabbitmqctl one liner  rabbitmqctl list queues   awk    print  1      sed  s Listing      xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge queue

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There s a way to remove all queues and exchanges without scripts and full reset  You can just delete and re-create a virtual host from admin interface  This will work even for vhost     The only thing you ll need to restore is permissions for the newly created vhost

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Another option is to delete the vhost associated with the queues  This will delete everything associated with the vhost  so be warned  but it is easy and fast     NOTE  the RabbitMQ team monitors the rabbitmq-users mailing list and only sometimes answers questions on StackOverflow

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Okay  important qualifier for this answer  The question does ask to use either rabbitmqctl OR rabbitmqadmin to solve this  my answer needed to use both  Also  note that this was tested on MacOS 10 12 6 and the versions of the rabbitmqctl and rabbitmqadmin that are installed when installing rabbitmq with Homebrew and which is identified with brew list --versions as rabbitmq 3 7 0 rabbitmqctl list queues -p  lt VIRTUAL HOSTNAME gt  name   sed 1 2d   xargs -I qname rabbitmqadmin --vhost  lt VIRTUAL HOSTNAME gt  delete queue name qname

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I tried rabbitmqctl and reset commands but they are very slow   This is the fastest way I found  replace your username and password       bin bash    Stop on error set -eo pipefail  USER  guest  PASSWORD  guest   curl -sSL -u  USER  PASSWORD http   localhost 15672 api queues  2f    jq      name    sed  s    g    xargs -L 1 -I  curl -XDELETE -sSL -u  USER  PASSWORD http   localhost 15672 api queues  2f     To also delete exchanges uncomment next line   curl -sSL -u  USER  PASSWORD http   localhost 15672 api exchanges  2f    jq      name    sed  s    g    xargs -L 1 -I  curl -XDELETE -sSL -u  USER  PASSWORD http   localhost 15672 api exchanges  2f     Note  This only works with the default vhost

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You can use rabbitmqctl eval as below    rabbitmqctl eval  IfUnused   false  IfEmpty   true  MatchRegex     lt  lt   prefix-  gt  gt    rabbit amqqueue delete Q  IfUnused  IfEmpty     Q  lt -  rabbit amqqueue list    re run element 4  element 2  Q    MatchRegex       nomatch        The above will delete all empty queues in all vhosts that have a name  beginning with  prefix-    You can edit the variables IfUnused  IfEmpty   and MatchRegex as per your requirement

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First  list your queues    rabbitmqadmin list queues name  Then from the list  you ll need to manually delete them one by one    rabbitmqadmin delete queue name  queuename   Because of the output format  doesn t appear you can grep the response from list queues  Alternatively  if you re just looking for a way to clear everything  read  reset all settings  returning the installation to a default state   use   rabbitmqctl stop app rabbitmqctl reset      Be sure you really want to do this  rabbitmqctl start app

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Try this       rabbitmqadmin list queues name   awk   print  2     xargs -I qn rabbitmqadmin delete queue name qn

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