Getting Started
A quick and simple guide to get started with VerneMQ
Installing VerneMQ
VerneMQ is a high-performance, distributed MQTT message broker. It scales horizontally and vertically on commodity hardware to support a high number of concurrent publishers and consumers while maintaining low latency and fault tolerance. To use it, run VerneMQ using our Docker image:
Starting VerneMQ
To start a VerneMQ broker, use the vernemq start command in your Shell:
A successful start will return no output. If there is a problem starting the broker, an error message is printed to STDERR
.
To run VerneMQ with an attached interactive Erlang console:
A VerneMQ broker is typically started in console mode for debugging or troubleshooting purposes. Note that if you start VerneMQ in this manner, it is running as a foreground process that will exit when the console is closed.
You can close the console by issuing this command at the Erlang prompt:
Once your broker has started, you can initially check that it is running with the vernemq ping command:
The command will respond with pong
if the broker is running or Node <NodeName> not responding to pings
in case it’s not.
As you may have noticed, VerneMQ will warn you at startup when your system’s open files limit (ulimit -n
) is too low. You’re advised to increase the OS default open files limit when running VerneMQ. Read more about why and how in the Open Files Limit documentation.
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