RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker software written in Erlang that implements the AMQP protocol. It supports multiple messaging protocols and follows FIFO methods. RabbitMQ is commonly used to build distributed systems that communicate via asynchronous messaging. It provides high availability, scalability, reliability, and security for enterprise systems and has good performance. RabbitMQ acts as a message broker that accepts messages from producers and forwards them to queues. It gives applications a common platform to send and receive messages.