Introduction

Qarote is an open-source RabbitMQ monitoring and management dashboard. It gives you a clean, modern alternative to the built-in Management Plugin — with real-time metrics, better visualizations, and premium features like alerting, workspaces, and SSO available as you scale.

What Qarote can do

• Monitor queue depths, message rates, and consumer counts in real time
• Inspect exchange bindings and routing topologies
• Spy on live queue traffic without consuming messages from real consumers
• Set up threshold alerts (message depth, consumer count, dead-letter growth)
• Manage multiple RabbitMQ servers from a single dashboard
• Invite team members to shared workspaces with role-based access

How it connects to RabbitMQ

Qarote uses two protocols to talk to your broker:

Management HTTP API

Used for most operations: reading queue/exchange/binding metadata, publishing test messages, purging queues, and fetching metrics history. This requires the rabbitmq_management plugin to be enabled.

AMQP

Used for features that need a live connection to the broker, such as spying on live queues. Qarote opens a direct AMQP connection and closes it when the feature is no longer in use.

Requirements

Before installing Qarote, make sure you have:

• RabbitMQ 3.8 or later with the Management Plugin enabled:

  rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

• A RabbitMQ user with the monitoring or administrator tag
• A server to host Qarote (Linux, Docker, or a platform like Dokku)
• PostgreSQL 14+ for Qarote’s own data (connections, users, alerts)

Self-hosted by design

Qarote runs entirely in your own infrastructure. Your RabbitMQ credentials, message contents, and cluster metrics never leave your network. See Security and privacy for a full breakdown of how data flows through Qarote.