title: How to parse rabbitmq status output?
body: <p>I installed RabbitMQ on Linux, it's a great piece of software.  </p>
  
  <p>When I run this command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo rabbitmqctl status
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get a mess of output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[{pid,18665},
   {running_applications,
       [{rabbitmq_management,"RabbitMQ Management Console","3.1.5"},
        {rabbitmq_web_dispatch,"RabbitMQ Web Dispatcher","3.1.5"},
        {webmachine,"webmachine","1.10.3-rmq3.1.5-gite9359c7"},
        {mochiweb,"MochiMedia Web Server","2.7.0-rmq3.1.5-git680dba8"},
        {rabbitmq_management_agent,"RabbitMQ Management Agent","3.1.5"},
        {rabbit,"RabbitMQ","3.1.5"},
        {os_mon,"CPO  CXC 138 46","2.2.7"},
        {inets,"INETS  CXC 138 49","5.7.1"},
        {xmerl,"XML parser","1.2.10"},
        {mnesia,"MNESIA  CXC 138 12","4.5"},
        {amqp_client,"RabbitMQ AMQP Client","3.1.5"},
        {sasl,"SASL  CXC 138 11","2.1.10"},
        {stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","1.17.5"},
        {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.14.5"}]},
   {os,{unix,linux}},
   {erlang_version,
       "Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [64-bit] [rq:1] [async-threads:30] [kernel-poll:true]\n"},
   {memory,
       [{total,179426464},
        {connection_procs,300224},
        {queue_procs,14434024},
        {plugins,474968},
        {other_proc,9607952},
        {mnesia,89264},
        {mgmt_db,1539936},
        {msg_index,85175152},
        {other_ets,29060560},
        {binary,18243208},
        {code,17504466},
        {atom,1602617},
        {other_system,1394093}]},
   {vm_memory_high_watermark,0.4},
   {vm_memory_limit,1522479923},
   {disk_free_limit,1000000000},
   {disk_free,58396659712},
   {file_descriptors,
       [{total_limit,924},{total_used,17},{sockets_limit,829},{sockets_used,4}]},
   {processes,[{limit,1048576},{used,233}]},
   {run_queue,0},
   {uptime,5169640}]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It looks like JSON, but it's not.</p>
  
  <p>What data format is this?  And how did you find out?  </p>
  
  <p>Closest thing I can find is this: <a href="http://erlang.org/doc/man/yecc.html" rel="nofollow">http://erlang.org/doc/man/yecc.html</a></p>