Why can't you look at messages in the Rabbit Queue

Question

If my understanding is correct, you can\'t actually look at messages in the rabbit queue without taking them out and putting them back in. There\'s no way to use rabbitmqctl to

Answer 1

It's possible to get a message without acknowledging and then reject it, that wouldn't get the message out of the queue. But this is not implemented in the management tool.

And also the message is locked until released meaning that no other consumer can consume it before it gets rejected.