[rabbitmq-discuss] browse messages on a queue

[Jim Irrer]

John -

I was in the process of writing a plugin to get the same functionality:

http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2011-March/011936.html

What is the time frame for yours?

I had already been working some ideas for functionality, including writing
to
a device or a database, and would like to know more details of what
you are doing.

Thanks,

- Jim

Jim Irrer     irrer at umich.edu       (734) 647-4409
University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology
519 W. William St.             Ann Arbor, MI 48103


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:46 AM, John DeTreville <jdetreville at vmware.com>wrote:

> Joe,
>
> RabbitMQ lets you write your own plug-ins for storing queues. We're
> producing a few accompanying samples now, including one that stores all
> messages in a MySQL database. Its performance might be much lower than the
> standard queue implementation, but it would allow you to watch messages go
> by.
>
> This MySQL plug-in should be out soon, but certainly not this month.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Kearney, Joe wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm interested in finding or writing a tool to monitor messages on a
> rabbit queue, in particular to be able to view messages waiting on the
> queue. The use case is for occasional monitoring and debugging; I'm not
> suggesting using a browse/read-only function in normal processing.
> >
> > This was raised on this mail group last July (
> http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2010-July/008004.html).
> Two pertinent quotes from that thread:
> >
> >> The only way you can get at the messages is through the normal AMQP
> methods that consume the messages (basic.consume and basic.get).  But these
> are not simple read-only operations of the type you might want for
> monitoring of the messages within a queue.
> >
> >> it's actually quite hard to come up with a sensible semantics for it
> that isn't too constraining on implementations
> >
> > Has there been any progress on a built-in way to do this? Any thoughts on
> when/whether this might be introduced?
> >
> > Alternatively, can you comment on a sensible way to fake it? The naive
> implementation that springs to mind is simply to get a few messages from the
> head of the queue in a transaction and roll it back. Clearly this is more
> heavyweight than it need be, but are there any reasons that this behaviour
> should really be avoided for manual monitoring, until such a time as real
> read-only browsing is supported?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
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