How can I watch what happens under the hood of ActiveMQ?

Question

I am having a problem using ActiveMQ and want to track / view all ActiveMQ activities. The only log file I can find is related to persistent data (if enabled). Are there any other log files that I look at or generate to tell me what is happening under the hood of ActiveMQ and why my consumers do not consume messages? Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

activemq has a jmx interface to which you can connect.

this gives us access to messages counting the number of messages in the queue and all kinds of data on memory usage, etc.

http://activemq.apache.org/jmx.html

You have all the details to get you started.

I am very pleased to know what is happening with activemq.

Firing fast from jconsole, and you will be well on your way to figuring out what is happening.

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Answer 2

I agree. You can also add a registration hook , which helps.

Finally, to view messages, move them, create / delete queues, and send messages, I highly recommend the new web console for ActiveMQ, Camel, and many other plugins : hawtio

Answer 3

Try HawtIO . Assuming you are not using Active MQ 5.9, you can add this feature to your broker. This is a much better web console and a good JMX monitoring utility.

http://www.christianposta.com/blog/?p=315