[rabbitmq-discuss] read messages in the queue

Tue Nov 8 13:06:32 GMT 2011

Hi Jeffrey,

On 07/11/11 19:16, Jeffrey Chen wrote:
> Hi RabbitMQ community:
>
> I am playing with rabbitMQ management plugins. We are using rabbitMQ for
> production product, and we are trying to see all OR first the messages
> in the queue for debugging purposes. Is there a way to do that? I do see
> there is a feature "Get Message" under the "Queues" tab, but this
> feature will consume the messages or destruct the order. Is there a a

In the next version of rabbit (after v2.6.1) the order will not be 
destroyed when requeueing messages. Messages will be requeued to the 
front of the queue, meaning that you can "peek" at the head of the 
queue. You can make use of the management interface or use an AMQP 
client to do this.

-Emile