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The RabbitMQ module uses HTTP API created by the management plugin to collect metrics.
The default metricsets are connection, node, queue, exchange and shovel.
If management.path_prefix is set in RabbitMQ configuration, management_path_prefix has to be set to the same value in this module configuration.
The rabbitmq module is fully tested with RabbitMQ 3.7.4 and it should be compatible with any version supporting the management plugin (which needs to be installed and enabled). Exchange metricset is also tested with 3.6.0, 3.6.5 and 3.7.14