RabbitMQ and message priority

Question

Does RabbitMQ have any concept of message priority? I have an issue were some more important messages are being slowed down due to less important messages sitting before it

Answer 1

We could make rabbitmq a distributed priority queue by installing the plugin rabbitmq_priority_queue from https://www.rabbitmq.com/community-plugins.html . You have to download the plugin rabbitmq_priority_queue-3.3.x-72d20292.ez and put inside plugins folder of your rabbit mq installation directory. Restart the server. Now you can insert items into the queue with a priority and consume it accordingly , have pasted the sample code in How to poll the RabbitMQ to get messages in order of priority continuously? .