RabbitMQ: check if message has been delivered? - rabbitmq

With a simple work queue, is is possible to ask the RabbitMQ server if a specific message has already been delivered to a consumer (worker) or if it is still in the queue?

You can't query RabbitMQ about a specific message has been delivered, but if you you need to know if a message has been processed by a consumer you could use an RPC implementation to get a response sent back to the sender once your message has been processed.
You can find an example on how to implement a RPC solution on RabbitMQ's official tutorials here.

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What is the best approach for dealing with RabbitMQ DLQ messages in Spring AMQP

I am using Spring AMQP to listen RabbitMQ queue. While listening queue, depending on business logic, my service can throw RuntimeException and in this case message will retry several times. After max count retries, message will stay in DLQ. And I am wondering, what is the best approach to deal with these messages in DLQ? I read from blogs that I can use ParkingLot Queue. But also in this case, how to monitor the queue and notify people about dead-letter messages?
P.S. Sorry for my English. Hope that I was able to explain my problem :)
You can use the RabbitMQ REST api (Hop client) to get the status of the DLQ.
You can also use Spring's RabbitAdmin.getQueueProperties("my.dlq") to get the message count.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-amqp/docs/current/reference/html/#broker-configuration
Other options include adding another listener on the DLQ and run it periodically to either send it back to the original queue or send it to a parking lot queue if it fails too many times.
There's an example of that in the spring cloud stream documentation.

How can I subscribe to a message being sent to the _skipped queue in rabbit mq

Question one: Can I subscribe to the event of a message being sent to the _skipped queue?
I am using masstransit together with rabbit mq. Some messages sometimes are sent to the _skipped queue for unclear reasons. The message type has a consumer, the ttl (time to life) is not small. It should not happen, and I am getting a log entry from masstransit, but I want to do more at the moment. Maybe log an error, in test maybe pop-up a window. Is there a way to achieve this? I am only getting these log messages below.
MassTransit.ReceiveTransport|SKIP rabbitmq://localhost/services_admin db270000-1fd6-00ff-3b83-08d9000ef97c
MassTransit.ReceiveTransport|Declare queue: name: services_admin_skipped, durable, consumer-count: 0 message-count: 3
Question two: What exactly happens to messages in the _skipped queue? Can they be resent?
Skipped messages either don't match the type (namespace included), don't have a consumer on the endpoint, or were a response to a request client that is no longer waiting for it. Since it's a receive endpoint queue, it's likely one of the first two reasons. Look at the message body/details in the RabbitMQ Management Console, that should give you some ideas.
You can use a shovel in RabbitMQ to move the messages back into the queue once you've resolved the issue.

Spring AMQP RabbitMQ RPC - Queue with with some messages that do not expect a response

I am trying to create a priority RPC queue that can accept some messages that expect a response and some messages that do not expect a response. The problem I am facing is that when I send messages with convertAndSend I get an error saying "org.springframework.amqp.AmqpException: Cannot determine ReplyTo message property value: Request message does not contain reply-to property, and no default response Exchange was set." I know the issue is that the RPC queue is expecting a response, and the message just stays on the queue, but for these messages I do not want/need a response. Any idea how I can work around this issue?
Thanks,
Brian
A solution recommended in this link worked for me: Single Queue, multiple #RabbitListener but different services. Basically I have a class with RabbitListener, and different methods with RabbitHandler

Message not showing up in queue(RabbitMQ)

I am using RabbitMQ to queue up all the messages and send the messages as SMS to respective consumers. I am using a Direct exchange and I have correctly created a binding to a queue with a routing key. The problem is, when I try to publish a message, I get some activity in the Message rates chart, but the message doesn't show up in the queue
Could certainly use some help here. I am sure the binding is done correctly.
Am I missing some other configuration?
I would recommend to "use specific exchanges", not sending message without specified exchange. I had same issue, when I published it to amq.direct or amq.fanout it worked as I wanted to.
If your configuration is correct, and you also have an active consumer that listens to that queue, I don't think anything is wrong. Doesn't those metrics depicts that the event was published and then delivered and acknowledged by the consumer ? So of course you won't have any queued events since it was consumed as soon as it was published.
It looks like the message is delivered to a consumer (as you can see in the chart). Remove the consumer and try to publish the message again, and you will see that it ends up in the queue instead.
In my case I was creating custom queue so I had to provide custom queue ID as a routing key.

How to get/know a message that is processing in RabbitMQ?

I need to know if it's possible to know or get a message from RabbitMQ (consumers) which is processing (maybe if it's taking long time). But, I don't want to stop the service. I hope my question is clear enough.
I guess you mean if RabbitMQ provides any build-in notification or tracking about whether a specific message is being processed or not. The answer is No. But you should easily be able to implement one by your own. For instance, when begin to process a message in the consumer, the consumer could send a notification message to a notification queue.