rabbithole

Rabbit Hole

Rabbithole is a simple program for load testing RabbitMQ. It allows you to send a custom number of messages of a configurable size to a queue.

Installation

Download the latest release binary for your system from the releases page

Building it yourself

Requirements

• Go >=1.11

Process

Clone the master branch of this repository and enter the directory. Use the provided Makefile to build and install the binary for your system

git clone https://github.com/itmecho/rabbithole
cd rabbithole
make install

This will install the binary to your $GOPATH/bin directory.

To build the binary in the current folder, just run:

make

Usage

To see a list of configurable flags, run the following command:

rabbithole --help

Local Testing

This repository provides a docker-compose.yml which will run a rabbitmq server locally for you to test with. It will be available on localhost:5672 with the default username/password (guest:guest). The defaults for the rabbithole flags will enable you to connect to this server without needing to set them.

docker-compose up -d

TODO

• Tests
• Add --delay flag to add a delay between each message