What kind of python process to monitor a queueing system like kestrel or rabbitmq?

Question

I'm fairly new to python, and I was wondering what kind of application would you create to constanstly monitor a queueing service like kestrel or rabbitmq?

How would it run, and under what context? Would it be a simple python script that would have a infinit while loop?

I'm looking for a long running, stable python service that would respond to incoming messages from either rabbitmq or kestrel. I want this to be as light weight as possible, but stable and something you can rely on to be running.

Answer 1

Sounds like you're wanting to implement an event loop. The simplest of these are indeed implemented with what's basically a while True: (and then having some shutdown handler that can break out of the loop if it's time to exit by request or some such).