Clients Libraries and Developer Tools

Overview

RabbitMQ is officially supported on a number of operating systems and has several official client libraries. In addition, the RabbitMQ community has created numerous clients, adaptors and tools that we list here for your convenience.

Please contact us with suggestions for things you would like to see added to this list.

Note: items with a check mark (✓) are officially supported by Team RabbitMQ and VMware.

Load Testing and Workload Simulation

• ✓ PerfTest for quorum and classic queues
• ✓ Stream PerfTest for streams

Java and Spring

Java

• ✓ RabbitMQ Java client and its developer guide
• ✓ RabbitMQ Stream Java client
• ✓ RabbitMQ JMS client
• Reactor RabbitMQ, a reactive API for RabbitMQ based on Reactor and RabbitMQ Java Client

Spring Framework

• ✓ Spring AMQP project for Java
• ✓ Spring Cloud Data Flow
• ✓ Spring Integration

.NET

Client libraries:

• ✓ RabbitMQ .NET Client (supports .NET Core and .NET 4.6.1+)
• ✓ RabbitMQ Stream .NET client

Higher level frameworks:

• EasyNetQ, an easy to use, opinionated .NET API for RabbitMQ
• NServiceBus, the most popular open-source service bus for .NET.
• Brighter, a Command Processor & Dispatcher implementation with support for task queues

Miscellaneous projects:

• RabbitMQTools, PowerShell module containing cmdlets to manage RabbitMQ

Ruby

• ✓ Bunny, a dead easy to use RabbitMQ Ruby client
• AMQP::Client, a lightweight and high performance AMQP Ruby client
• March Hare, a JRuby RabbitMQ client
• Sneakers, a fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ
• Hutch, a conventions-based framework for writing (Ruby) services that communicate over RabbitMQ.
• Ruby RabbitMQ HTTP API client
• Ruby RabbitMQ clients blog
• Ruby RabbitMQ clients mailing list

Python

• ✓ pika, a pure-Python AMQP 0-9-1 client (source code, API reference)
• rstream: RabbitMQ Stream Python client
• rbfly: RabbitMQ Stream Python client
• aio-pika, a pure-Python AMQP 0-9-1 client built for Python 3 and asyncio (source code, API reference)
• aioamqp, a pure-Python AMQP 0-9-1 library using asyncio (source code, docs)

Miscellaneous projects:

• Celery, a distributed task queue for Django and pure Python

PHP

• ✓ php-amqplib a pure PHP, fully featured RabbitMQ client
• RabbitMqBundle incorporates RabbitMQ messaging with the Symfony2 web framework
• PECL AMQP library built on top of the RabbitMQ C client
• Thumper a library of messaging patterns
• CAMQP an extension for the Yii framework providing a gateway for RabbitMQ messaging
• AMQP Interop is a set of unified AMQP 0-9-1 interfaces in PHP and their implementations
• Bowler is a RabbitMQ client abstraction for Laravel

JavaScript and Node

• amqplib: RabbitMQ (AMQP 0-9-1) client for Node.js
• amqp-client: High performance client for both NodeJS and browsers (WebSocket), written in TypeScript
• rabbit.js: message patterns in node.js using RabbitMQ.
• rabbitmq-stream-js-client: RabbitMQ Stream NodeJS client.
• amqp-stats: a node.js interface for RabbitMQ management statistics
• Rascal: a config driven wrapper for amqp.node supporting multi-host connections, automatic error recovery, redelivery flood protection, transparent encryption and channel pooling.
• node-rabbitmq-client: RabbitMQ (AMQP 0-9-1) client library with auto-reconnect, zero dependencies, TypeScript support, and Promise-based API.

Go

• ✓ RabbitMQ Go client
• ✓ RabbitMQ Stream Go client
• Rabbit Hole, RabbitMQ HTTP API client for Go
• amqpc, a load testing tool for RabbitMQ clusters

iOS and Android

• ✓ RabbitMQ Objective-C and Swift client from the RabbitMQ team
• Get Started with RabbitMQ on Android

Objective-C and Swift

• ✓ RabbitMQ Objective-C and Swift client from the RabbitMQ team

Rust

• amqprs, async Rust client, easy-to-use APIs, lock-free, tokio-based
• ✓ RabbitMQ Stream Rust client
• Lapin, a mature Rust client
• amiquip, a RabbitMQ client written in pure Rust

Crystal

• amqp-client, an AMQP 0-9-1 client for Crystal

Other JVM Languages

Scala

• Lepus: a purely functional, non-blocking RabbitMQ client for Scala, Scala.js and Scala Native
• RabbitMQ client for Scala
• Akka-based RabbitMQ client for Scala
• Op-Rabbit, an opinionated Akka-based RabbitMQ client for Scala
• Processing RabbitMQ messages using Akka Streams
• RabbitMQ module for Play Framework
• Lift RabbitMQ module

Groovy and Grails

• Grails RabbitMQ plugin
• Grails with RabbitMQ for messaging
• Green Bunny, Groovy RabbitMQ client inspired by Bunny

Clojure

• Langohr, a Clojure RabbitMQ client built on top of the official Java one
• Bunnicula, Component based framework for Clojure built on top of the official Java one

JRuby

• March Hare, a JRuby RabbitMQ client

C and C++

• RabbitMQ C client
• SimpleAmqpClient, a C++ wrapper around rabbitmq-c
• amqpcpp, a C++ message library for RabbitMQ
• AMQP-CPP, a C++ RabbitMQ client

Monitoring

• See Monitoring and Prometheus guides.

Visualisation

• Rabbit Viz, a tool for visualizing exported definition files.

Unity 3D

• Unity 3D RabbitMQ Client

Erlang

• ✓ RabbitMQ Erlang client
• RabbitMQ Stream Erlang client
• bunny_farm, a simplifying wrapper for the Erlang client
• RabbitMQ Messaging Patterns, a library of messaging patterns implemented in Erlang

Haskell

• A RabbitMQ client for Haskell

OCaml

• A RabbitMQ client for OCaml

Provisioning (Chef, Puppet, Docker, etc)

Chef RabbitMQ Cookbook Puppet RabbitMQ Module RabbitMQ Docker image

Database Integration

Oracle Stored Procedures for RabbitMQ integration. RabbitMQ component for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). RabbitMQ integration with PostgreSQL's LISTEN notifications. RabbitMQ Riak Exchange: a custom exchange type for RabbitMQ that uses Riak as a backing store. Riak RabbitMQ postcommit Hook: a postcommit hook for Riak that sends any modified entries to RabbitMQ.

CLI Tools

• ✓ RabbitMQ CLI tools
• ✓ rabbitmqadmin, a command line tool that targets RabbitMQ HTTP API
• amqp-utils, command line utils for interacting with an AMQP based queue (in Ruby)
• amqptools, command line AMQP clients (in C)
• rabtap, RabbitMQ wire tap and swiss army knife command line tool (in go)

3rd party plugins

• RabbitMQ Global Fanout Exchange: a custom exchange type that fans out messages to every queue in the broker no matter what the bindings or vhosts.
• RabbitMQ Recent History Exchange: a custom exchange type that keeps track of the last 20 messages that have passed through such that newly bound queues receive a recent message history.
• SMTP gateway for RabbitMQ

Perl

• RabbitFoot, an asynchronous and multi-channel RabbitMQ client using Coro and AnyEvent::RabbitMQ
• AnyEvent::RabbitMQ, an asynchronous and multi-channel RabbitMQ client

OCaml

• NetAMQP, a native AMQP 0-9-1 client for Ocaml tested against RabbitMQ

Common Lisp

• cl-rabbit a Common Lisp client library for RabbitMQ

COBOL

• Using rabbitmq-c From COBOL

Traffic Capture and Protocol Analysis

• Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer

Miscellaneous

• XMPP adaptor
• RabbitMQ Adapter for Streambase for complex event processing (CEP)
• Delphi/Free Pascal RabbitMQ Client
• bevis: a syslog listener that forwards messages over RabbitMQ
• rabbitmq-memcached: a memcached adapter for RabbitMQ that allows you to use the memcache protocol to get or publish a message from or to RabbitMQ
• flume-amqp-plugin: a plugin for Flume (a Hadoop data loader) that allows you to use a RabbitMQ node as a data source.
• Fudge Messaging Format: fudge is a data encoding system that is hierarchical, typesafe, binary and self-describing. It is messaging protocol-agnostic.
• QDB: Persistent Message Queues with Replay: queue backup and replay over AMQP 0-9-1. Includes REST API
• AMQProxy: An AMQP 0-9-1 proxy, with connection and channel pooling/reusing
• amqpcat: A netcat-like CLI tool for producing and consuming AMQP 0-9-1 messages.