Check RabbitMQ queue size from client

.net, amqp, message-queue, rabbitmq

Solution

You can actually retrieve this via the client.

When you perform a `queue_declare` operation, RabbitMQ returns a tuple with three values: `(<queue name>, <message count>, <consumer count>)`. The `passive` argument to `queue_declare` allows you to check whether a queue exists without modifying the server state, so you can use `queue_declare` with the `passive` option to check the queue length.

Not sure about .NET, but in Python, it looks something like this:

name, jobs, consumers = chan.queue_declare(queue=queuename, passive=True)

Problem

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