Pika blocking_connection.py random timeout connecting to RabbitMQ

Question

i have a rabbit mq running on machine

• both client and rabbitMQ are running on the same network
• rabbitMQ has many clients
• i can ping client f

Answer 1

Pika provides some time out issue when connecting different hosts.Solution is to pass a socket_timeout argument in connection parameter.Pika should upgrade to >=0.9.14

credentials = pika.PlainCredentials(RABBITMQ_USER, RABBITMQ_PASS)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(
    credentials=credentials,
        host=RABBITMQ_HOST,
         socket_timeout=300))
channel = connection.channel()

Answer 2

I had a similar issue. If everything looks fine, then you most likely have some sort of miss configuration, e.g. bad binding. If miss configured, then you'll get a timeout because the script can't reach where it thinks it needs to go, so the error can be miss leading in this case.

For my problem, I specifically had issues with both my rabbitmq.config file and my bindings and had to use my python solution shown in: RabbitMQ creating queues and bindings from a command line over the command line example I showed. Once updated and configured properly, everything worked fine. Hopefully this gets you in the right direction.