Deleting queues in RabbitMQ

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I have a few queues running with RabbitMQ  A few of them are of no use now  how can I delete them  Unfortunately I had not set the auto delete option   If I set it now  will it be deleted   Is there a way to delete those queues now

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A short summary for quick queue deletion with all default values from the host that is running RMQ server:

curl -O http://localhost:15672/cli/rabbitmqadmin
chmod u+x rabbitmqadmin
./rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=myQueueName

To delete all queues matching a pattern in a given vhost (e.g. containing 'amq.gen' in the root vhost):

rabbitmqctl -p / list_queues | grep 'amq.gen' | cut -f1 -d$'\t' | xargs -I % ./rabbitmqadmin -V / delete queue name=%

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Hopefully it might help someone    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   Also  if you want to delete a single queue  the above solutions will help python  Java      and also do sudo rabbitmqctl delete queue queue name  I am using rabbitmqctl instead of rabbitmqadmin

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You assert that a queue exists  and create it if it does not  by using queue declare   If you originally set auto-delete to false  calling queue declare again with autodelete true will result in a soft error and the broker will close the channel   You need to use queue delete now in order to delete it    See the API documentation for details    Java Client queueDelete  NET Client queueDelete   If you use another client  you ll need to find the equivalent method   Since it s part of the protocol  it should be there  and it s probably part of Channel or the equivalent   You might also want to have a look at the rest of the documentation  in particular the Geting Started section which covers a lot of common use cases   Finally  if you have a question and can t find the answer elsewhere  you should try posting on the RabbitMQ Discuss mailing list   The developers do their best to answer all questions asked there

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I did it different way  because I only had access to management webpage  I created simple  snippet  which delete queues in Javascript  Here it is   function zeroPad num  places      var zero   places - num toString   length   1    return Array   zero  gt  0  amp  amp  zero   join  0     num    var queuePrefix    PREFIX  for var i 0  i lt 255  i         var queueid   zeroPad i  4        ajax  url    api queues vhost   queuePrefix queueid  type   DELETE   success  function result   console log  deleted   queuePrefix queueid          All my queues was in format  PREFIX 0001 to PREFIX 0XXX

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install    sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq management   and go to http   localhost 15672   queues if you are using localhost  the default password will be username  guest  password  guest  and go to queues tab and delete the queue

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The management plugin  web interface  gives you a link to a python script  You can use it to delete queues  I used this pattern to remove a lot of queues   python tmp rabbitmqadmin --vhost     --username     --password     list queues  gt  tmp q  vi tmp q   remove all queues which you want to keep  cut -d    -f4 tmp q  while read q       do python tmp rabbitmqadmin --vhost     --username     --password     delete queue name  q   done

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With the rabbitmq management plugin installed you can run this to delete all the unwanted queues   rabbitmqctl list queues -p vhost name    grep -v  fast  medium  slow     tr    blank           cut -d     -f 1    xargs -I    curl -i -u guest guest -H  content-type application json  -XDELETE http   localhost 15672 api queues  lt vhost name gt       Let s break the command down   rabbitmqctl list queues -p vhost name will list all the queues and how many task they have currently   grep -v  fast  medium  slow  will filter the queues you don t want to delete  let s say we want to delete every queue without the words fast  medium or slow   tr    blank        will normalize the delimiter on rabbitmqctl between the name of the queue and the amount of tasks there are  cut -d     -f 1 will split each line by the whitespace and pick the 1st column  the queue name   xargs -I    curl -i -u guest guest -H  content-type application json  -XDELETE http   localhost 15672 api queues  lt vhost gt     will pick up the queue name and will set it into where we set the    character deleting all queues not filtered in the process   Be sure the user been used has administrator permissions

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There is rabbitmqadmin which is nice to work from console   If you ssh log into server where you have rabbit installed  you can download it from   http    server  15672 cli rabbitmqadmin   and save it into  usr local bin rabbitmqadmin  Then you can run  rabbitmqadmin -u  user  -p  password  -V  vhost  delete queue name  name    Usually it requires sudo    If you want to avoid typing your user name and password  you can use config  rabbitmqadmin -c  var lib rabbitmq  rabbitmqadmin conf -V  vhost  delete queue name  name    All that under assumption that you have file     var lib rabbitmq  rabbitmqadmin conf   and have bare minumum  hostname   localhost port   15672 username    user  password    password    EDIT  As of comment from  user299709  it might be helpful to point out that user must be tagged as  administrator  in rabbit   https   www rabbitmq com management html

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If you do not care about the data in management database  i e  users  vhosts  messages etc   and neither about other queues  then you can reset via commandline by running the following commands in order      WARNING  In addition to the queues  this will also remove any users and vhosts  you have configured on your RabbitMQ server  and will delete any persistent messages   rabbitmqctl stop app rabbitmqctl reset rabbitmqctl start app   The rabbitmq documentation says that the reset command      Returns a RabbitMQ node to its virgin state        Removes the node from any cluster it belongs to  removes all data from   the management database  such as configured users and vhosts  and   deletes all persistent messages    So  be careful using it

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I use this alias in  profile   alias qclean  rabbitmqctl list queues   python   bin qclean py    where qclean py has the following code   import sys import pika connection   pika BlockingConnection pika ConnectionParameters  localhost    channel   connection channel    queues   sys stdin readlines   1 -1  for x in queues      q   x split   0      print  Deleting  s       q      channel queue delete queue q   connection close     Essentially  this is an iterative version of code of Shweta B  Patil

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I ve generalized Piotr Stapp s JavaScript jQuery method a bit further  encapsulating it into a function and generalizing it a bit    This function uses the RabbitMQ HTTP API to query available queues in a given vhost  and then delete them based on an optional queuePrefix   function deleteQueues vhost  queuePrefix        if  vhost          vhost     2F       html encode forward slashes       ajax           url    api queues   vhost           success  function result                  each result  function i  queue                    if  queuePrefix  amp  amp   queue name startsWith queuePrefix   return true                    ajax                       url    api queues   vhost     queue name                       type   DELETE                        success  function result    console log  deleted    queue name                                                              Once you paste this function in your browser s JavaScript console while on your RabbitMQ management page  you can use it like this   Delete all queues in     vhost  deleteQueues         Delete all queues in     vhost beginning with  test   deleteQueues       test      Delete all queues in  dev  vhost beginning with  foo   deleteQueues  dev    foo      Please use this at your own risk

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In RabbitMQ versions   3 0  you can also utilize the HTTP API if the rabbitmq management plugin is enabled  Just be sure to set the content-type to  application json  and provide the vhost and queue name   I E  Using curl with a vhost  test  and queue name  testqueue      curl -i -u guest guest -H  content-type application json  -XDELETE http   localhost 15672 api queues test testqueue HTTP 1 1 204 No Content Server  MochiWeb 1 1 WebMachine 1 9 0  someone had painted it blue  Date  Tue  16 Apr 2013 10 37 48 GMT Content-Type  application json Content-Length  0

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import pika  connection   pika BlockingConnection pika ConnectionParameters                  localhost    channel   connection channel    channel queue delete queue  queue-name    connection close     Install pika package as follows    sudo pip install pika  0 9 8   The installation depends on pip and git-core packages  you may need to install them first   On Ubuntu     sudo apt-get install python-pip git-core   On Debian     sudo apt-get install python-setuptools git-core   sudo easy install pip   On Windows  To install easy install  run the MS Windows Installer for setuptools   gt  easy install pip  gt  pip install pika  0 9 8

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Another option would be to enable the management plugin and connect to it over a browser   You can see all queues and information about them   It is possible and simple to delete queues from this interface

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I was struggling with finding an answer that suited my needs of manually delete a queue in rabbigmq  I therefore think it is worth mentioning in this thread that it is possible to delete a single queue without rabbitmqadmin using the following command  rabbitmqctl delete queue  lt queue name gt

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