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Number of current messages inside a queue

Theodore_x86 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:18:40 GMT

Hello, dear Community members!

I have a question, might sound dumb, but is there a metric for queues that depicts the count of messages currently processed? Not the incoming/outgoing messages or rate, but the actual number of messages inside the queue.

Something similar exists on the service bus metrics:

Thank you!

Re: Number of current messages inside a queue

radek_jasinski — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:34:20 GMT

It is this metric: cloud.azure.serviceBus.queue.messages.countActive, which corresponds to the Microsoft documentation metric ActiveMessageCount, described here as “Number of messages in the queue or subscription that are in the active state and ready for delivery (including deferred messages).”

Radek

Re: Number of current messages inside a queue

radek_jasinski — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:36:21 GMT

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/message-counters

Re: Number of current messages inside a queue

Theodore_x86 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:41:43 GMT

Thanks @radek_jasinski

Is there anything similar for queues as a metric?

Re: Number of current messages inside a queue

radek_jasinski — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:12:18 GMT

Hi @Theodore_x86

What exactly do you mean?

Re: Number of current messages inside a queue

Theodore_x86 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:21:15 GMT

Hello. An update on the case.

Our interest is on Weblogic Queues so the relevant metric comes from the weblogic extension and is the following:

Thodoros