Download Messages

💡Download messages from any sub queue from the selected Service Bus queue (and Topic Subscription).

Nodinite enables you to download messages from your Azure Service Bus queue for troubleshooting, archiving, or integration. This page explains how to export single or multiple messages, select encoding, and manage files efficiently.

Expect to:

• ✅ Download single or multiple messages for analysis or archiving
• ✅ Choose encoding for exported files (default: UTF-8)
• ✅ Export as .out for single files or as a .zip file when multiple messages are selected
• ✅ Use Nodinite's intuitive interface for message management

You can download messages from the Service Bus queue. The messages are downloaded as either a single file with the content of the message body and or a zip file if you select several messages .

There are two alternatives for downloading messages from the queue:

1. Download single message (.out file)
2. Download selected messages (.zip file)

Regardless of which sub queue you download from ('Active', 'Dead-letter' or 'Scheduled'), you can "globally" select which encoding to apply on the downloaded message(s) as file. The encoding option determines how the message body is encoded in the downloaded file. The default encoding is UTF-8. You can change this by clicking on the Encoding button in the Download section of the Manage messages ... modal.

Shows the encoding options in the Download section of the Manage messages modal.

1. Download single message

You can download a single message by clicking on the Action button and selecting Download.

Note

You must 'allow browser pop-ups' in your browser to download messages.

Shows the download menu item for a single message from the queue.

2. Download selected messages

You can also download selected messages from the queue by clicking on the Download menu item in the 'With selected' button:

Shows the download selected messages as zip button.

Operations may time out if you have a very large amount of large messages selected, use it wisely.

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Next Step

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• Monitoring Azure Service Bus Queue
• Managing Azure Service Bus Queues
• Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topics
• Managing Azure Service Bus Topics
• Monitoring Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions
• Managing Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions

Related Topics

• Details – View essential information about the selected Service Bus Queue.
• Edit thresholds – Configure monitoring thresholds for the selected queue.
• Enable – Enable a Service Bus Queue that is currently disabled.
• Disable – Disable a Service Bus Queue that is currently enabled.
• Resubmit and Delete All Dead Letter Messages – Resubmit and delete all dead letter messages in the queue.
• List Active Messages – View all active messages in the queue.
• List Dead Letter Messages – View all dead letter messages in the queue.
• List Scheduled Messages – View all scheduled messages in the queue.
• Purge Messages (Active) – Purge all active messages from the queue.
• Purge Dead Letter – Purge all dead letter messages from the queue.