JMeter & RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker which uses the AMQP protocol. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Apache JMeter to interact with RabbitMQ message queues using JMeter’s AMQP client for message injection.

Requirements

• Running RabbitMQ instance on the same machine as JMeter
• Two JAR files:
  • amqp-client-3.0.3.jar
  • JMeterAMQP.jar

Installation Steps

Place the downloaded files in these directories:

/<jmeter directory>/lib/amqp-client-3.0.3.jar
/<jmeter directory>/lib/ext/JMeterAMQP.jar

Core Functionality

AMQP Consumer Sampler

Reads messages from RabbitMQ queues using:

• Host
• Port
• Username
• Password
• Exchange name
• Queue name
• Routing key

AMQP Publisher Sampler

Sends messages to queues with the same parameters plus message content.

Example Configuration

Parameter	Value
Host	localhost
Port	5672
Username	guest
Password	guest
Exchange	jmeterExchange
Queue	jmeterQueue
Routing Key	jmeterRoutingKey

Performance

JMeter can handle thousands of messages a second from a single instance for typical small message sizes, making it an effective tool for performance testing message-based architectures.