RabbitMQ Reviews & Insights

Score9.2 out of 10

42 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for RabbitMQ are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient and Effective Routing: Several users have praised the routing capability of RabbitMQ, stating that it efficiently and effectively routes work items based on topic. This feature allows for easy processing by subscribers of the RabbitMQ queue.

High Scalability: Many reviewers appreciate the scalability of RabbitMQ, especially when handling a large number of work items. They mention that RabbitMQ scales well with a cluster approach, making it highly reliable for executing work items.

Easy-to-Use Web UI: The web UI of RabbitMQ is widely appreciated by users for its ease-of-use. Customers find its intuitive interface convenient for quickly performing tasks without any hassle.

RabbitMQ Reviews

12 Reviews

RabbitMQ review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use RabbitMQ to enable communication between several smart devices, which I build using Raspberry Pi boards equipped with various sensors (temperature, humidity, and position sensors). It is very powerful as it manages message transfers and supports device failures, since it stores the data in the broker until the devices come back online.

Pros

Message transfer between sensor-based devices
It tolerates device failures.
It has a user-friendly interface to monitor message transfers between devices
It allows communication between heterogeneous devices built in different programming languages.

Cons

It does not provide support for retrieving messages after they have been delivered
It is well documented, especially for initial configurations, but provides limited guidance on security and QoS
I did not encounter any additional issues so far

Likelihood to Recommend

RabbitMQ is a powerful messaging broker that facilitates communication between IoT devices. I have personally used it with Raspberry Pi-based devices, but it can also be used with Arduino-based devices or others. It features an intuitive and user-friendly interface, allowing users to track messages sent by devices. Moreover, it provides consistent and comprehensive documentation, making it easy to configure message transfers using multiple supported programming languages (Python, Java, etc.).

Verified User

Employee (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Worth investing in

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RabbitMQ in conjunction with our own homegrown ESB. RabbitMQ acts as a backbone to our ESB for routing and enabling us to move transactions from one ESB endpoint to another. The new quorum queues enable have multiple queue consumers across a cluster of RabbitMQ servers meaning we have virtually zero downtime during routine maintenance.

Pros

High performance queues
Exchanges (routing)
Easy to use web UI
Easy deployment

Cons

Installing on Windows has some quirks especially with clustering
When disk is full, it stops transactions which can be problematic to recover from
.net SDK doesn't always recover nicely from network drops

Likelihood to Recommend

RabbitMQ is inherently a very simple product consisting only of queues and exchanges. If you're willing to invest the time to use RabbitMQ as your backend and implement your own adapters, then it's worthwhile. Because RabbitMQ is easy to roll out for simple use cases, you can just set it up to get started, and build it up over time.

Gordon Lo

Digital Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Dynacare (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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RabbitMQ: The Perfect Messaging Solution for Fast, Reliable, and Flexible Communication

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 17, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using microservices architecture so communication between services is the most important part. RabbitMQ helped us to solve the communication problem between microservices. Another use case is we have our own job processing mechanism, RabbitMQ helped us to push work items in the RabbitMQ queue and process it based on topic.

Pros

Routing of work items based on topic. We can push work items in a RabbitMQ queue which is topic based and those will be processed by subscriber of that queue.
Scaling with so many work items. RabbitMQ scales well with cluster approach that will help us when we have so many work items.
It tracks work items status, if worker crashes then the same will be passed on to other worker. This way it will be highly reliable that work item must be executed sooner or later.

Cons

It breaks communication if we don't acknowledge early. In some cases our work items are time consuming that will take a time and in that scenario we are getting errors that RabbitMQ broke the channel. It will be good if RabbitMQ provides two acknowledgements, one is for that it has been received at client side and second ack is client is completed the processing part.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is highly recommended that if you have microservices architecture and if you want to solve 2 phase commit issue, you should use RabbitMQ for communication between microservices. It is a quick and reliable mode of communication between microservices.

It is also helpful if you want to implement a job and worker mechanism. You can push the jobs into RabbitMQ and that will be sent to the consumer. It is highly reliable so you won't miss any jobs and you can also implement a retry of jobs with the dead letter queue feature.

It will be also helpful in time-consuming API. You can put time-consuming items into a queue so they will be processed later and your API will be quick.

Rajdeep Bhuva

Lead Engineer in Information Technology at TJC Group (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

RabbitMQ got the Job done in a simple scenario

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

July 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used RabbitMQ at a few clients as an efficient messaging and Queuing System. In particular, we were looking for a way to use messaging between disconnected apps on different platforms. The Producer App was in the .Net Web Site and the consumer was a service running on a Linux Server.

Pros

Queuing
Simple SetUp
Easy to integrate with

Cons

A bit complicated to take full advantage of its features.
Dashboard could be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

RabbitMQ is powerful and useful for those who have some experience. It is easy to set up for simple uses but hard to do advanced things. I found it easy to integrate with. I would recommend it in open source environments.

Paul Wickham

Lead Consultant in Information Technology at Magenic Technologies (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Free carrots for RabbitMQ

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started to use RabbitMQ because it was a prerequisite for using Genesys Pulse in Realtime mode. From that, it was an interesting alternative to Queuing we used like MSMQ to deal with asynchronous messaging between 2 components.

Pros

Several libraries in many languages our customers use.
Mirroring to deal with failures.
Scalability to deal with high rate in producer.

Cons

More "Rabbit" plugins
UI for monitoring

Likelihood to Recommend

RabbitMQ is open source, it is why it is interesting to use as an alternative to commercial ones for small uses. Also, it has a huge community of users who are very active to develop some plugins to deal with problematic related to microservices.
RabbitMQ is easy to implement and use.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

A RabbitMQ user in a microservices environment

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

RabbitMQ is our service bus and is how we perform communication across our microservice APIs. We have about a dozen or so microservices which all make use of RabbitMQ. It's extremely integral to our systems and the fact that you can send a message with built-in fault tolerance is pretty incredible when you think about it.

Pros

Messaging
Fault Tolerance
Ease of Integration

Cons

The admin dashboard could use some improvements
Can be difficult to administer the bus

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for cross-platform communication while solving the problem of fault tolerance with built-in retry mechanisms. It's less appropriate for communication within a single service.

Brendan McKenna

Principal Developer in Information Technology at American Board of Internal Medicine (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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RabbitMQ, a nice tool that may be too complex

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

August 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

RabbitMQ was the queuing system we previously used before shifting to AWS SQS. The product is "old" yet very mature and maintained. This software helped us to create rich applications with advanced architectures. It is very easy to use and can scale very well to cover a large range of use cases.

Pros

Awesome documentation
Undoubtedly Efficient
Can cover a large range of use cases

Cons

Can be hard to maintained
Difficult to monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to cover highly specific use-cases or if you are working on-prem RabbitMQ is suited. The documentation makes it easy to understand both the AMQP concepts and the various architectures that can be implemented. However, if you are working on the Cloud, most CLoud-Providers offer their own messaging service (in our case we shifted from RabbitMQ on a VM to SQS)

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Powerful platform, honest and well documented.

Rating: 9 out of 10

June 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Pivotal RabbitMQ in order to develop our own framework. We have a custom architecture to distribute task and commands between our micro services. The effect of RabbitMQ reached all organization as we developed Administration backend UIs for all departments.

The organization managed users and the project using RabbitMQ.

Previously, in other organization we used it as medium to communicate nano-services following a similar pattern as previously described.

Pros

Document the internal processes of Pivotal RabbitMQ so you fully understand what can and cannot do.
Concurrency and resource utilization.
Handling dead letter queues and giving flexibility to create your own dead letter systems.
AMQL 0.9.1 is extremely flexible.

Cons

Shovels are quite raw to use.
More AMQP extensions like the publisher confirmation for not requiring so many queues.
Easy AMQP entities configuration changes on production.

Likelihood to Recommend

Messages, commands that need conformation (a la RPC). When you have small and medium-sized important messages it is very good.

David Bonet Montes

Co-Chief Executive Officer in Engineering at Couragium Solutions (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Solid messaging system

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 29, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

RabbitMQ is used in conjunction with Ellucian Banner software, specifically Ellucian Ethos Integration product and Banner Events Publisher.

Pros

Easy to install.
Open source, so there is no software cost.
JSON compliant.

Cons

Support for SSL/TLS.
Failover RabbitMQ cluster for high traffic environments.
The documentation needs improvement in explaining how to configure the above-mentioned features.

Likelihood to Recommend

RabbitMQ is flexible and has many potential usages. It is good for capturing data changes on the database and posting messages in the RabbitMQ queue - centralized auditing system. It is also good for developing a centralized login system.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

RabbitMQ software review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 16, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using RabbitMQ in the IT department. We used it to monitor our SMS service delivery platform. To monitor the delivery counts, number of successful deliveries, failed delivery and also be able to monitor the performance of the SMS platform, as in [to see] if everything is working as expected.

Pros

Ability to give accurate performance results
Ability to interpret the systems data to a more simple readable format
Able to give graphical as well tabular analysis
Reliable - doesn't fail in its performance

Cons

More simplified, some aspects of it is a little technical though

Likelihood to Recommend

Was most suitable whenever we wanted to know the successful delivery rate of our SMS platform.

Patrick lampatt

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Self-employed (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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