Manage Monitoring for Azure Service Bus resources
Manage monitoring thresholds and perform administrative remote actions on Microsoft Azure Service Bus queues and services for configured subscriptions.
This agent allows you to monitor Microsoft Azure Service Bus queues & topics.
Note
Thresholds for queue depth and age can be either global or unique per configured specific queue to monitor.
Delegate the power to control all or individual Service Bus resources to selected team members and the business. This feature helps the people involved in the support and maintenance team have the power to manage problems with your Service Bus Queues and services without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Limiting the number of attack vectors, and having fewer people with high access rights minimizes the risk of disruption of mission-critical services.
Stockpiling messages is terrible for your business. So we developed this Monitoring Agent to give end-users the power to get alerts and manage content to keep the system healthy.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Let your AM team resolve problems with content on Azure Servicebus | Stay in complete control, end to end, with access to everything | Give your business self-service control for Servicebus resources |
Remember: Avoid the blame game, all sensitive operations are Audit Logged.
Features
With the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent you can manage:
- Monitoring Actions
- Purge
- Resubmit - "Resume" dead lettered messages
- Edit thresholds
- global threshold
- Individual thresholds
- List Messages - Active, Dead letter and Scheduled separately
- Download single message
- Download selected
- Download all messages on queue as ZIP
- View Service Bus Queue details
- View Service Bus Subscription Details
- View Service Bus Resource Group Details
- Post - Post messages to selected queue with many common options
- Perform Remote Configuration
As an Administrator with access to Monitoring Agents from the Remote Administration dialogue, you can further manage:
- Add and Remove Azure subscriptions
- Add and Remove Resource groups within each subscription
- Enable and Disable Monitoring
- Edit thresholds
- Global
- Specific thresholds for the selected queue
See the global Configuration for additional details about how to configure Nodinite and the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent
Azure Subscription
A User with access rights to a Monitor Views with the Resources of the Category 'Azure Subscription' where Remote Actions are allowed can perform the Actions documented next.
This Resource is helpful to include/exclude Resource Groups in the Monitoring.
Azure Subscription Details
Click the Details menu item on the Actions button to load the modal with information about the Service Bus subscription.
Using the modal with Subscription information for the selected Service Bus provides basic information.
Example with basic information about the Service Bus subscription
For information about the queue itself see the following section:
Resource Group
A User with access rights to a Monitor Views with the Resources of the Category 'Resource Group' where Remote Actions are allowed can perform the Actions documented next.
Resource Group Details
Click the Details menu item on the Actions button to load the modal with information about the Service Bus subscription.
Example with basic information about the Resource Group.
Service Bus Queue
A User with access rights to a Monitor Views 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
- Edit thresholds
- List Dead Letter Messages
- List Active Messages
- List Scheduled Messages
- Queue Details
- Purge Messages (Active)
- Purge Dead Letter
Edit thresholds
You can manage the following properties:
Manageable thresholds for the selected queue
If you see the following warning message it means that this queue is using global thresholds. When you click on the Save button you will start to use specific thresholds instead.
If you see this alert then the current configuration is global
Description
You can manage the Description field for the Nodinite Resource. This option provides you a way to add a "comment" for the specific queue.
Timespan evaluation
- Allowed timespan - manage threshold for the maximum allowed age for first message on the specific queue
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning TimeSpan | Timespan | 00:05:00 (5 minutes) | The age of first message on the queue to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error TimeSpan | Timespan | 01:10:00 (1 hour 10 minutes) | The age of first message on the queue to trigger Error alert |
Number evaluation
- Count Evaluation Type
- None - Queue is not evaluated based on any of the number based options
- Fixed - Monitor on fixed numbers
- Percent - Use when Quota based monitoring is what you seek
- Comes First - Fixed and Percent
Options for monitoring of queue based on numbers
None
With the None option no monitoring on numbers will be performed.
Fixed
With the Fixed option monitoring is based on "fixed" numbers.
Percent
With the Percent option monitoring is based on quota.
Comes First
With the Comes First option you can set thresholds for Fixed and Percent and both options will be monitored.
- Number evaluation - Manage threshold for the maximum number of allowed messages
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the queue to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the queue to trigger Error alert | |
| Warning Limit % | integer | 1-100 | Set the threshold quota value in percentage (1-100) for Warning alert | |
| Error Limit % | integer | 1-100 | Set the threshold quota value in percentage (1-100) for error alert |
List Dead Letter Messages
Click the List Dead Letter Messages menu item on the Action button for the selected queue to view a list of all dead letter messages on the selected Service Bus queue.
Nodinite will then load a shared modal with a paged list view with the dead letter messages currently on the queue. The Dead Letter tab is now the active tab.
Sample list of dead letter messages on Service Bus queue.
You can reload the list by clicking on the Reload button.
Manage Dead Letter Messages
From the Actions button you can further choose to manage the selected dead letter message. The following options are available:
- Download (documented in a shared paragraph)
- Delete
- Resubmit
List Active Messages
Click the List Active Messages menu item on the Action button for the selected queue to view a list of all messages on the selected Service Bus queue.
Nodinite will then load a shared modal with a paged list view with the messages currently on the queue. The Active tab is now the active tab.
Sample list of messages on Service Bus queue
You can reload the list by clicking on the Reload button.
Manage Active Messages
From the Actions button you can further choose to manage the selected dead letter message. The following options are available:
- Download (documented in a shared paragraph)
- Delete
List Scheduled Messages
Click the Scheduled tab from within the "Manage messages ..." modal to get a paged list of all scheduled messages on the selected Service Bus queue.
Sample list of scheduled messages on Service Bus queue.
You can reload the list by clicking on the Reload button.
Manage Scheduled Messages
From the Actions button you can further choose to manage the selected dead letter message. The following options are available:
- Download (documented in a shared paragraph)
Download options
There are many different options for downloading messages.
- Download single message
- Download selected messages
Regardless of which alternative you download from ('Active', 'Dead-letter' or 'Scheduled'), you can "globally" select which encoding to apply on the downloaded message(s) as file.
Select encoding for downloaded message.
1. Download single message
You can download a single message by clicking on the Action button and select Download.
You must 'allow browser pop-ups'
Click on download menu item to download message from 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:
Download selected messages as zip button.
This operation may time out if you have a large amount of messages on the queue, use with caution.
Post message
From the Post tab, you can submit messages to the selected queue.
Post message with common options.
To send a message you can provide the following properties:
Label
Message
Select formatter
Encoding
Select encoding when posting messages.Force Persistence - When checked, force Service Bus to immediately persist the message to stable storage
CorrelationId
Content type
MessageId
Partition Key
Session Id
Service Bus Queue Details
Select Queue Details to open a modal with information about the Service Bus:
Example with basic information about the selected queue.
You can further expand with more Properties by expanding the accordion:
Properties
List of additional queue properties.
Purge Messages (Active)
If you click on the 'Purge Messages' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information and the number of messages that was removed.
Purge Dead Letter Messages
If you click on the 'Purge Dead Letter' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information and the number of messages that was removed.
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 Remove Resource groups within each subscription
- Enable and Disable Monitoring
- Set global thresholds for queues
- Set individual thresholds on named queue
- Add and Remove RegEx based exclusion filters
Next Step
Configure the Nodinite Message Queueing Monitoring Agent