HiveMQ Heartbeat Extension

Prerequisites

• HiveMQ Enterprise Edition (EE) 4.2.0 or later

• HiveMQ Community Edition (CE) 2020.1 or later

Purpose

This extension allows integration with load balancers and proxies. It provides a readiness check via HTTP, which means a service is able to detect if a HiveMQ instance is offline and the load balancer is thus able to remove the HiveMQ node from the load balancing.

Installation

• Download the extension from the HiveMQ Marketplace.

• Copy the content of the zip file to the extensions folder of your HiveMQ nodes.

• Modify the extension-config.xml file for your needs.

Configuration

The Heartbeat extension uses its own configuration file 'extension-config.xml' which must be placed in the extensions folder of HiveMQ.

Config name	Required	Description
<port>	no	The port on which the heartbeat HTTP service should listen. Default is 9090
<bindAddress>	yes	The bind address of the heartbeat HTTP service. Use 0.0.0.0 if you want to listen on all interfaces.
<path>	no	The Path where the heartbeat HTTP service is located. Default ist /heartbeat

Example Configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<heartbeat-extension-configuration>
        <port>9090</port>
        <bind-address>0.0.0.0</bind-address>
        <path>/heartbeat</path>
</heartbeat-extension-configuration>

Important

By Default the Heartbeat is available at http://MY-IP:9090/heartbeat

Metrics

This extension exposes a custom metric to HiveMQs holistic metric registry.

Metric name	Type	Description
http-heartbeat-meter	Meter	A meter that shows the frequency of heartbeat requests

Need Help?

If you encounter any problems, we are happy to help. The best place to get in contact is our support.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to HiveMQ Heartbeat Extension, see the contribution guidelines.

License

HiveMQ Heartbeat Extension is licensed under the APACHE LICENSE, VERSION 2.0. A copy of the license can be found here.