Push RabbitMQ statistics to CloudWatch. First argument is the vhost.

rabbitmq-cloudwatch-metric.sh

#! /bin/bash
STATS2READ=( messages consumers )

# Namespace
NS=RabbitMQ
REGION=us-east-2

# Instance ID
EC2ID=$(ec2metadata --instance-id)

# Endpoint (using HTTP instead of HTTPS to save CPU credits)
ENDPOINT="http://monitoring.$REGION.amazonaws.com"

# Collecting statistics for RabbitMQ queues
UNIT=Count

# RabbitMQ Virtual Host
VHOST="$1"

echo "Fetching metrics for vhost $VHOST"

for STATISTIC in ${STATS2READ[@]}; do
        QUEUE_STATS=$(rabbitmqctl list_queues -p $VHOST $STATISTIC name)

        # Metric data is stored in $MDATA[12]. It is populated while parsing output of rabbitmqctl
        MDATA1=''
        MDATA2=''

        # Parsing output of rabbitmqctl
        while read -r line ; do
                #echo "Processing line: $line"
                if [[ $line == "Listing queues for vhost $VHOST ..." ]]; then
                        continue
                elif [[ $line == 'Timeout: 60.0 seconds ...' ]];  then
                        continue
                fi
                if [[ $line == '...done.' ]]; then break; fi
                read VALUE QUEUE <<< $line

                echo "$VHOST $QUEUE"
                MDATA1+="MetricName=$STATISTIC,Value=$VALUE,Unit=Count,Dimensions=[{Name=Queue,Value=$QUEUE},{Name=Vhost,Value=$VHOST}] "
                MDATA2+="MetricName=$STATISTIC,Value=$VALUE,Unit=Count,Dimensions=[{Name=Queue,Value=$QUEUE},{Name=Vhost,Value=$VHOST},{Name=InstanceId,Value=$EC2ID}] "
        done <<< "$QUEUE_STATS"

        aws cloudwatch put-metric-data --endpoint-url $ENDPOINT --namespace $NS --region $REGION --metric-data $MDATA1
        aws cloudwatch put-metric-data --endpoint-url $ENDPOINT --namespace $NS --region $REGION --metric-data $MDATA2
done

This is a fork from a script that I found online made to suit my needs at the time :)