Effortless Management for Azure Service Bus Queues
Take control of your Microsoft Azure Service Bus with Nodinite—the secure, automated solution for monitoring and managing queues, topics, and subscriptions. This guide shows you how to streamline operations, boost security, and ensure compliance, all without direct Azure Portal access.
✅ Proactive queue monitoring with real-time alerts
✅ Secure, role-based self-service remote actions—no direct Azure Portal access required
✅ Automated troubleshooting and message management
✅ Full audit logging for compliance and accountability
✅ Supports Sessions on remote actions on the active sub queue (Queues and Topic Subscriptions)
Why Choose Nodinite?
Nodinite empowers your team to view, manage, and resolve issues—without granting direct Azure Portal access. This approach reduces security risks by minimizing attack surfaces and limiting privileged access. RBAC-based Monitor Views ensure only authorized users have the right level of control.
Azure Service Bus Queue, Topic and Topic Subscription Resources as presented in a self-service enabled Nodinite Monitor View.
Comprehensive Monitoring & Proactive Alerts
Prevent message backlogs before they impact your business. Receive real-time alerts for:
- Growing queue depths
- Aging messages
- Dead-lettered messages
- Misconfigured forwarding
- Misconfigured forwarding dead-letter to
- Misconfigured or empty Topic Subscriptions
- Disabled entities
Built-in Auditing for Compliance & Accountability
All sensitive operations in Nodinite are audit logged, ensuring full traceability—a must for regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and government. Eliminate the blame game and always know who did what, and when.
Feature-Rich Agent: Replace Service Bus Explorer with Nodinite
With the Nodinite Message Queueing Monitoring Agent, you gain unmatched control over Azure Service Bus queues, topics, and subscriptions.
Threshold & Configuration Management
- Set global or individual thresholds for age, count, and quota
- Enable/Disable monitoring for queues, topics, and subscriptions
Message Retrieval & Processing
- List messages (Active, Dead-letter, Scheduled)
- Download single or bulk messages as ZIP files
- Post messages to queues or topics, including advanced options
- Move messages between sub queues
You can perform many actions on individual or selected messages. When you select multiple messages, the actions are performed on all selected messages and the 'With Selected' button at the bottom of the list view is enabled.
Example of the 'With Selected' button at the bottom of the list view.
Take Full Control of Your Azure Service Bus—Without the Hassle
With Nodinite, you can streamline operations, prevent downtime, and reduce manual work—all while ensuring compliance, security, and efficiency. Upgrade your monitoring strategy today and leave Service Bus Explorer behind—experience faster troubleshooting, automated issue resolution, and effortless queue management with Nodinite!
Service Bus Queue Actions
There are several Actions available for managing Azure Service Bus Queues (and some are identical for Topic Subscriptions). The actions are available from the Actions button on the selected queue in the Resources list view.
A User with access rights to a Monitor View with the Resources of the Category 'Service Bus Queue' where Remote Actions are allowed can perform the Actions documented next.
Menu items from the Action button on selected queue as seen in a filtered Nodinite Monitor View
- 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.
Remote Configuration
As an Administrator with access to Monitoring Agents from the Remote Administration dialogue, you can further perform global Configuration:
- Add and Remove Azure subscriptions.
- Add and permanently Remove Resource groups within each subscription. You can also temporarily disable a Resource Group.
- Enable and Disable Monitoring.
- Set global thresholds for queues.
- Set individual thresholds on named queue.
- Add and Remove RegEx based exclusion filters (also featuring a negative lookahead).
Next Step
Configure the Nodinite Message Queueing Monitoring Agent