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AWS amazon-mq documentation change

Service: amazon-mq · 2026-05-01 · Documentation low

File: amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-basic-elements-plugins.md

Summary

Added documentation for RabbitMQ's Prometheus plugin including metrics endpoints and CloudWatch integration.

Security assessment

Addition focuses on monitoring capabilities, not security features. No authentication details or security configurations are mentioned.

Diff

diff --git a/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-basic-elements-plugins.md b/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-basic-elements-plugins.md
index 746178ce6..a407a4913 100644
--- a//amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-basic-elements-plugins.md
+++ b//amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-basic-elements-plugins.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-RabbitMQ management pluginShovel pluginFederation pluginConsistent Hash exchange pluginOAuth 2.0 pluginLDAP pluginHTTP pluginSSL certificate pluginaws pluginJMS Topic Exchange plugin
+RabbitMQ management pluginShovel pluginFederation pluginConsistent Hash exchange pluginOAuth 2.0 pluginLDAP pluginHTTP pluginSSL certificate pluginaws pluginJMS Topic Exchange pluginPrometheus plugin
@@ -32,0 +33,2 @@ Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ also supports the following plugins.
+  * Prometheus plugin
+
@@ -137,0 +140,10 @@ The JMS Topic Exchange plugin is only available for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ versi
+## Prometheus plugin
+
+The [Prometheus plugin](https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/prometheus) is built into RabbitMQ and is always enabled on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers. Starting with RabbitMQ 4.2, Amazon MQ aligns with the RabbitMQ open source strategy of using Prometheus for per-node metrics instead of the management plugin for long-term monitoring.
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+The plugin exposes metrics through the `/metrics`, `/metrics/detailed`, and `/metrics/memory-breakdown` endpoints in Prometheus text format. You can scrape these endpoints with Prometheus or compatible monitoring tools to build dashboards and set up alerting.
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+Amazon MQ also publishes a curated subset of these Prometheus metrics to CloudWatch. For more information about CloudWatch metrics, see [Available CloudWatch metrics for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers](./rabbitmq-logging-monitoring.html).
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+For endpoint details, authentication, and scraping configuration, see [Accessing Prometheus metrics](./rabbitmq-prometheus-metrics.html).
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