RabbitMQ
The facts below are what the maker publishes about RabbitMQ, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From RabbitMQ's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Open-source RabbitMQ | Free | self-hosted broker · community support |
| Open Source RabbitMQ Server | Free | Self-managed broker; support is community-based on a best-effort basis · Free under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
| Tanzu RabbitMQ | Priced on request | enterprise edition · 24/7 expert support · longer lifecycle · disaster recovery · compliance |
| VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ | Priced on request | 24/7 expert support · extended support lifecycle · enterprise features · Contact for commercial offering |
The facts
Each one read from RabbitMQ's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- RabbitMQ allows operators to restrict users to specific virtual hosts and limit their permissions within each virtual host.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Built-in integrations
- Core plugins include LDAP, OAuth 2.0, HTTP authentication, TLS certificate authentication, federation, MQTT, Prometheus, STOMP, Shovel and WebSockets bridges.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Client guarantees
- The maintained AMQP 1.0 libraries provide automatic connection and topology recovery and at-least-once delivery guarantees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Commercial security
- VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ lists FIPS 140-2 compliance for TLS, OAuth 2.0 forward proxy support, and continuous CVE scanning among its enterprise security features.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Commercial support
- VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ offers 24/7 support from its core engineering team, and the contact page says highest severity issues receive attention within 30 minutes, 24/7/365.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Community support
- The RabbitMQ project provides best-effort community support through GitHub, Discord, a mailing list, and IRC.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Current release
- The latest listed release is RabbitMQ 4.3.6, released on 16 September 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Delivery reliability
- RabbitMQ supports message acknowledgements and message replication across a cluster.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- RabbitMQ can run on cloud infrastructure, on-premises, local machines, physical or virtual hardware, containers and IaaS providers.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Versioned documentation is organized for developers and administrators and includes tutorials, configuration, management, monitoring and broker comparisons.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- RabbitMQ provides client libraries for Java, .NET/C#, Erlang, and other languages, and offers a community Docker image and Kubernetes operators.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Java client
- The Java client is triple-licensed under Apache 2.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0 and GPL 2.0, and its 5.x series requires JDK 8 or newer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 operations and delivery
- G2 reviewers report difficult cluster management, an aging UI, tedious debugging of lost messages, configuration sensitivity and concerns about ordering or message-size limits.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Gartner scale complexity
- Gartner reviewers report that clustered setup and maintenance become complex at scale, the UI is dated, and comprehensive observability often requires custom Grafana dashboards.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: TrustRadius administration
- TrustRadius reviewers cite Windows clustering quirks, disk-full transaction stoppages, .NET recovery problems, difficult advanced administration and limited historical monitoring.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Management API
- The management plugin supplies an HTTP API, browser UI and rabbitmqadmin command-line tool for administration and monitoring.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Messaging patterns
- RabbitMQ supports routing, filtering, streaming, and federation to direct messages from publishers to one or more consumers.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Messaging protocols
- RabbitMQ supports open protocols including AMQP 1.0, MQTT 5.0, STOMP and other protocol plugins.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Monitoring limitation
- The built-in management UI stores only recent data and has basic visualizations, so the documentation recommends Prometheus and Grafana for long-term monitoring.checked 15 Oct 2026
- .NET client
- The .NET client is distributed through NuGet, has an online API reference and is developed publicly on GitHub.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- RabbitMQ 4.3, announced 23 April 2026, added 32 strict quorum-queue priority levels, delayed retries, consumer timeouts, Khepri metadata storage and AMQP 1.0 improvements.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Official client SDKs
- RabbitMQ maintains AMQP 1.0 clients for Java, .NET, Go, Python and JavaScript.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists RabbitMQ as a public software-development company founded in 2007, headquartered in London, with 10,001+ employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2007checked 23 Sep 2026
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