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Delete all the queues from RabbitMQ?

I installed rabbitmqadmin and was able to list all the exchanges and queues. How can I use rabbitmqadmin or rabbitmqctl to delete all the queues.

Solution

  • First, list your queues:

    rabbitmqadmin list queues name

    Then from the list, you'll need to manually delete them one by one:

    rabbitmqadmin delete queue name='queuename'

    Because of the output format, doesn't appear you can grep the response from list queues. Alternatively, if you're just looking for a way to clear everything (read: reset all settings, returning the installation to a default state), use:

    rabbitmqctl stop_app
rabbitmqctl reset    # Be sure you really want to do this!
rabbitmqctl start_app