Updated on 2025-09-03 GMT+08:00

Deleting RabbitMQ Exchanges

This section describes how to delete exchanges on the console.

Notes and Constraints

  • Deleting an exchange removes all its configurations including exchange-exchange and exchange-queue bindings permanently.
  • The default exchange cannot be deleted for RabbitMQ 3.x.x.

Prerequisite

An exchange has been created.

Deleting RabbitMQ Exchanges

  1. Log in to the console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner to select the region where your instance is located.
  3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Application > Distributed Message Service for RabbitMQ to open the RabbitMQ instance list.
  4. Click an instance name to go to the instance details page.
  5. In the navigation pane, choose Instance > Virtual Hosts.
  6. Click a virtual host name.
  7. On the Exchange tab page, delete exchanges in either of the following ways:

    • Select one or more exchanges and click Delete Exchange in the upper left corner.
    • In the row containing the desired exchange, click Delete.

    Deleting an exchange removes all its configurations including exchange-exchange and exchange-queue bindings permanently.

  8. Click OK.

    This Exchange is deleted when it is removed from the exchange list.