A shovel is used to move a message from a queue or exchange to a different queue or exchage. The queues or exchanges can reside on the same RabbitMQ node or on different RabbitMQ nodes.

There are two types of shovels.

• Dynamic - Created using the rabbitmqctl set_parameter command, or using the RabbitMQ REST API, or using the RabbitMQ web browser console, or using Terraform
• Static - defined in advanced.config, node must be restarted to create/delete a static shovel

The rabbitmqctl command with the restart_shovel option can be used to restart a dynamic shovel. In this example, shovel001 will be restarted.

rabbitmqctl restart_shovel --vhost foo shovel001

Something like this should be returned.

Restarting dynamic Shovel shovel001 in virtual host foo on node rabbit@server1