connect to a RabbitMQ cluster

[FlaviuRadulescu]

Hi, if we have multiple rabbitMq servers in a cluster can the proxy handle the load balancing (HA) between these servers and do the failover transparent to the client?

[snichme]

Hi,

If you tell the proxy to connect to just one broker in the cluster and that broker goes down it will not connect to another broker in the cluster since it doesn't know about them. How to handle this depends on your setup and how the cluster is configured.

On CloudAMQP if you instead supply it with the cluster hostname, not the hostname for a specific broker, it will automatically retry other broker on reconnect.
Then you also have to make sure that the queues are all available on the other brokers etc. so it's not so simple to answer yes or no to this question.

Does this answer your question?