Overall configuration of RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ's configuration is quite important to ensure the performance, high availability, and scalability within the installed operating system. In order to utilize RabbitMQ, we have three configuration ways:

• Environment variables: These are specified in the networking parameters and file locations
• Configuration file: This expresses the server component settings for permissions, limits, plugins, and clusters
• Runtime parameters: These define the cluster settings that would change at run time

Before diving into each configuration type, we should check whether the configuration file exists or not. In Unix-based systems, you can find the configuration file in the following folder:

/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config

In Windows, you can find the configuration file in the following folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\RabbitMQ_Server\etc\rabbitmq.config

After checking the configuration file, we are now ready to talk about configuration types one by one.