ActiveMQ Monitoring / logging for all Messages om all Queues - activemq

Is there a simple way to log (perhaps partially log) all messages that pass through all queues on ActiveMQ? The logging-interceptor does NOT do it.
Yes, I understand its somewhat ludicrous, but its still a requirement.
How about from a Camel context?

I was looking around for an answer like this, and there's actually a relatively simple way to do this now - Mirrored Queues.
http://activemq.apache.org/mirrored-queues.html

Achieved by embedding a camel context with a message handler. Then we wiretap any queue that we want to log and let the handler consume from the queue. The handler sends messages to any database you like.
Logged.

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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.

RabbitMQ as both Producer and Consumer in a single application

I am currently learning RabbitMQ and AMQP in general. I started working with some tutorials I found online and all of them show more or less the same example - a Spring Boot web app that, upon a REST call, produces a message and puts in onto a RabbitMQ queue and then, another class from the same app, which is configured as the Consumer of that message consumes it and processes the handler method.
I can't wrap my head around why this is beneficial in any way. The upside I understand is that the handler is executed in a separate thread, while the controller method can return right after sending the message to the queue. However, why would this be in any way better than just using Spring's #Async annotation on that handler method and calling it explicitly? In that case I suppose we would achieve the same thing, while not having to host and manage a seperate instance of a message broker like RabbitMQ.
Can someone please explain? Thanks.
Very simply:
with RabbitMq you can have persistent messages and a much safer and consistent exception management. In case the machine crashes, already pushed messages are not lost.
A message can be pushed to an exchange and consumed by more parallel consumers, that helps scaling the application in case the consumer code is too slow.
and a lot of other reasons...

Do a wire tap on all exchanges on a RabbitMQ server

I want to create a UI to see all the messages that are flowing through all exchanges in RabbitMQ server (of course other than the management console).
I am also using Mass Transit over rabbit but i am not sure if this matters.
Is this at all possible without having to code a consumer for each one of them one by one? If yes, any starting points?
The message exchanges used for publishing, as well as sending, are all bound to an exchange that has the same name as the queue for message delivery. So you could bind your own wire tap exchange on the broker to any queue exchange, and wiretap the messages to another queue of your choosing.
You can view the RabbitMQ topology layout in the documentation.
It was specifically done this way to make it easy to wiretap any endpoint, since all messages flow through a single fanout exchange.
This is a pretty broad question because it's not entirely obvious what you mean by "see", but regardless, you could create an observer on your bus. It's documented here and I think it's fairly straightforward: https://masstransit-project.com/MassTransit/usage/observers.html
In the observer you can handle various events when any message hits the MT message bus, and perform some kind of operation (like print the message, add logging, metrics, etc). If you have a microservice scenario it might be a good idea to add an observer to your shared library and add it to the bus in your individual applications.

RabbitMQ back up messages in specific queue

I have a service that consumes messages from a RabbitMQ queue (posting to the queue is done through a topic exchange). Assuming that the service can theoretically fail and lose its state, possibility to back up all the messages for disaster recovery would come in handy.
The first idea that comes to mind is adding another binding for the topic exchange so that the messages are also posted to another queue, and creating a custom service for backing up messages that would listen on that queue. But this sounds much like a potential reinvention of the wheel. Is there a simpler way to do this with RabbitMQ (plugin/existing service/etc)?
Found out that it's possible to do with a combination of a firehose and a tracing plugin.
RabbitMQ cluster, as specified in Clustering Guide and Highly Available Queues will do what you want in the right way.

Stopping consumers from consuming messages from queue

I am starting with ActiveMQ and I have a usecase. i have n producers sending messages into a Queue Q1. I want to stop the delivery of messages (i.e. i do not want consumers to consume those messages). I want to store the messages for sometime without those being consumed.
I was looking at ways this can be achieved. These two things came into my mind based on what i browsed through.
Using Mirrored queues, so that I can wiretap the messages and save into a virtual queue.
Possibly stop consumers from doing a PULL on the queue.
Another dirty way of doing this is by making consumers not send ack messages once its consumed a message from the queue.
We are currently not happy with either of these.
Any other way you can suggest.
Thanks in advance.
If you always want message delivery to be delayed you can use the scheduler feature of ActiveMQ to delay delivery until a set time or a fixed delay etc.
Other strategies might also work but it really up to you to design something that fits your use case. You can try to use Apache Camel to define a route that implements the logic of your use case to either dispatch a message to a Queue or send it to the scheduler for delayed processing. It all really depends on your use case and requirements.