Manage Azure Service Bus Topic Subscription Resources
💡 Manage monitoring thresholds and perform administrative remote actions on Microsoft Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions.
Gain full control and visibility over your Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions with Nodinite. This page shows you how to monitor, set thresholds, and perform remote actions—empowering your team to resolve issues quickly and securely, without direct access to the Azure Portal.
✅ Monitor Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions in near real time
✅ Set global or specific thresholds for proactive alerting
✅ Delegate remote actions and self-service to your team
✅ Reduce risk with audit logging and secure access
With Nodinite, you can monitor Microsoft Azure Service Bus Topics and their related Subscriptions.
Example list of monitored Azure Service Bus Topic Subscription resources.
Tip
Thresholds for topic subscription depth and age can be either global or unique per configured specific topic to monitor.
Empower your support and maintenance teams to manage Service Bus Topic resources and resolve issues—without granting direct access to the Azure Portal. This approach limits attack vectors and reduces the risk of disruption to mission-critical services.
Stockpiling messages can harm your business. Nodinite provides real-time alerts and remote management to keep your system healthy and responsive.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Let your AM team resolve problems with content on Azure Service Bus Topics | Stay in complete control, end to end, with access to everything | Give your business self-service control for Service Bus topic resources |
Remember: Avoid the blame game—Nodinite audit logs all sensitive operations. See Audit Logged.
Features
From Monitor Views with Service Bus Topic and Subscription Resources; The Message Queueing Monitoring Agent features the following Remote Actions:
The following actions are available for managing Azure Service Bus Topic Subscriptions (and some are identical for Queues):
Example of the Actions menu on selected Service Bus Topic Subscription.
- Details – View essential information about the selected Service Bus Topic Subscription.
- 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 sub queue.
- List Active Messages – View all messages in the active sub queue.
- Download - Download the message.
- View/Repair - View and repair the message.
- Delete - Delete the message.
- Move to Dead Letter - Move the message to the Dead-letter sub queue.
- Resubmit - Resubmit the message to the queue.
- Resubmit & Delete - Resubmit the message to the queue and delete the original message.
- List Dead Letter Messages – View all dead letter messages in the queue.
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- Download - Download the dead letter message.
- View/Repair - View and repair the dead letter message.
- Delete - Delete the dead letter message.
- Resubmit - Resubmit the message to the active sub queue.
- Resubmit & Delete - Resubmit the message to the active sub queue and delete the original message.
- Resubmit to Source - Resubmit the dead letter message to Source.
- Resubmit to Source and Delete - Resubmit the dead letter message to Source and Delete it.
- Purge Messages (Active) – Purge all active messages from the active sub queue.
- Purge Dead Letter – Purge all dead letter messages from the dead letter sub queue.
As an Administrator with access to Monitoring Agents from the Remote Administration dialogue, you can further manage:
- Add and Remove Azure subscriptions (with Topics and Subscriptions)
- Add and Remove Resource groups within each subscription
- Enable and Disable Monitoring
- Manage thresholds - Global and specific
- Filter - Remove Topics that you do not wish to monitor using regular expressions (RegEx)
Please review the global Configuration for additional details about how to configure Nodinite and the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent
Edit Thresholds
💡Manage Monitoring thresholds for the specific Topic Subscription.
The monitoring is based on thresholds. You can manage the following properties:
- Description - Manage the description for the specific Topic
- Specific Topic Subscription Thresholds - Manage the thresholds for the specific Topic Subscription
Example with the Edit thresholds dialog for a Service Bus Topic Subscription.
If you see the following alert; it means that this topic 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 Topic Subscription.
Specific Topic Subscription Thresholds
Unless you have configured specific thresholds for the Topic Subscription, the following properties are used for all Subscriptions of the Topic:
Timespan evaluation
- Allowed timespan - manage threshold for the maximum allowed age for first message on the specific Topic Subscription.
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning TimeSpan | Timespan | 00:05:00 (5 minutes) | The age of first message on the topic subscription to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error TimeSpan | Timespan | 01:10:00 (1 hour 10 minutes) | The age of first message on the topic to trigger Error alert |
Number evaluation
- Count Evaluation Type
- None - Topic Subscriptions are not evaluated based on any of the number based options
- Fixed - Monitor on fixed numbers
Options for monitoring of Topic Subscription based on numbers.
None
With the None option no monitoring on numbers will be performed.
Example of the None option for monitoring of Topic Subscription.
Fixed
With the Fixed option monitoring is based on "fixed" numbers.
Example of the Fixed option for monitoring of Topic Subscription.
| State | Name | Data Type | Value Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warning Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the Topic Subscription to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error Count | integer | >=0 | The number of messages to go above on the Topic Subscription to trigger Error alert |
Topic Subscription Details
💡View essential information about the selected Service Bus Topic Subscription.
Click on the Details menu item of the Actions button to view essential information about the selected Service Bus Topic Subscription.
Example of the Details view for a Service Bus Topic Subscription.
Next, you are presented with the Details view for the selected Service Bus Topic Subscription:
Example of the Details view for a Service Bus Topic Subscription.
Subscription rules
You can further expand with more information about Subscription rules by expanding the accordion:
Example of subscription rules for a topic
Thresholds
You can further expand with more information about Thresholds by expanding the accordion:
Read-only view of the current thresholds for selected topic
Enable Topic Subscription
If you click on the 'Enable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Disable Topic Subscription
If you click on the 'Disable' menu item of the Actions button you are presented with a confirmation dialogue:
If the operation succeeds you are presented with this information
Next Step
Configure the Nodinite Message Queueing Monitoring Agent