Delete all the queues from RabbitMQ?

Question

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.

Answer 1

You need not reset rabbitmq server to delete non-durable queues. Simply stop the server and start again and it will remove all the non-durable queues available.

Answer 2

Here is a way to do it with PowerShell. the URL may need to be updated

$cred = Get-Credential
 iwr -ContentType 'application/json' -Method Get -Credential $cred   'http://localhost:15672/api/queues' | % { 
    ConvertFrom-Json  $_.Content } | % { $_ } | ? { $_.messages -gt 0} | % {
    iwr  -method DELETE -Credential $cred  -uri  $("http://localhost:15672/api/queues/{0}/{1}" -f  [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($_.vhost),  $_.name)
 }

Answer 3

Removing all queues using rabbitmqctl one liner

rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/Listing//' | xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge_queue

Answer 4

Try this:

 rabbitmqadmin list queues name | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I qn rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=qn

Answer 5

In Rabbit version 3.7.10 you can run below command with root permission:

rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl delete_queue

Answer 6

Actually super easy with management plugin and policies:

• Goto Management Console (localhost:15672)

• Goto Admin tab

• Goto Policies tab(on the right side)

• Add Policy

• Fill Fields

  • Virtual Host: Select
  • Name: Expire All Policies(Delete Later)
  • Pattern: .*
  • Apply to: Queues
  • Definition: expires with value 1 (change type from String to Number)

• Save

• Checkout Queues tab again
• All Queues must be deleted
• And don't forget remove policy!!!!!!.