Queue

Improved scalability can be achieved by activating the queuing mechanism for email and page opens. Use this if you are getting too much traffic at once from people opening pages or opening emails.

Activating

You can activate and configure the queuing mechanism by going to configuration:

• Open the admin menu by clicking the cog icon in the top right corner.
• Select the Configuration menu item.
• Select the Queue Settings tab.
• Switch the Queue Protocol to either RabbitMQ or Beanstalkd.
• Save the configuration.

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is one of the available queue protocols that Mautic supports. In order to use it, you must have a RabbitMQ server running. Instructions on how to install RabbitMQ can be obtained on their website. For testing purposes, you can use you can use cloudamqp which offers a RabbitMQ as a service.

Once you have setup a RabbitMQ server, you can configure Mautic to use it by using the Configuration menu item again.

• Open the admin menu by clicking the cog icon in the top right corner.
• Select the Configuration menu item.
• Select the Queue Settings tab.
• Switch the Queue Protocol to RabbitMQ.
• Change the Host to the hostname of your RabbitMQ installation.
• Change the Virtual Host to the virtual host of your RabbitMQ installation.
• Change the User to the username of your RabbitMQ installation.
• Change the Password to the password of your RabbitMQ installation.
• Save the configuration.

Beanstalkd

Beanstalkd is another available queue protocol that Mautic supports. In order to use it, you must have a Beanstalkd server running. Instructions on how to install Beanstalkd can be obtained on their website.

Once you have setup a Beanstalkd server, you can configure mautic to use it by using the Configuration menu item again.

• Open the admin menu by clicking the cog icon in the top right corner.
• Select the Configuration menu item.
• Select the Queue Settings tab.
• Switch the Queue Protocol to Beanstalkd.
• Change the Host to the hostname of your Beanstalkd installation.
• Save the configuration.

Processing

Once the queuing mechanism is activated, any page hits and email opens will be queued up to be processed later. To process them, you will need to run some console commands on a regular basis.

Processing page hits is done by using the following command:

php /path/to/mautic/bin/console mautic:queue:process --env=prod -i page_hit

Processing email hits is done by using the following command:

php /path/to/mautic/bin/console mautic:queue:process --env=prod -i email_hit

When these commands are run, they will continue to run until you stop the program by using the keyboard combination Control + C. If you want to run them to process only, say, 50 page hits or email hits, you can run the command like this instead:

php /path/to/mautic/bin/console mautic:queue:process --env=prod -i page_hit -m 50

or

php /path/to/mautic/bin/console mautic:queue:process --env=prod -i email_hit -m 50

Cron to push the jobs

You need to run the following cron to keep pushing the jobs.

php /path/to/mautic/bin/console mautic:email:send

See the documentation on cron jobs for further information.