Determining how many messages are on the Azure Service Bus Queue

Question

I know there is a way to determine the number of messages (or approximate number) in the Azure Queue (Store Account); however is there a way to query for the number of pendi

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem trying to get the count from the dead letter queue. It looks like the deadletterqueue doesn't allow you to get a count directly, you get it from the MessageCountDetails of the normal Queue.

string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Microsoft.ServiceBus.Connstr"].ToString();
NamespaceManager nsmgr = Microsoft.ServiceBus.NamespaceManager.CreateFromConnectionString(connectionString);
return nsmgr.GetQueue(QueueName).MessageCountDetails.DeadLetterMessageCount;

Answer 2

Also..you can check the pending messages on Azure Management Portal...on the dashboard for service bus queue...under quick glance...you can see the queue length...this is the number of current/pending messages in length at the time of dashboard page load.

Answer 3

Based off what Joseph had as an answer I came up with, but for Topics and Subscriptions.

public async Task<long> GetCounterMessages()
        {
            var client = new ManagementClient(ServiceBusConnectionString);    
            var subs = await client.GetSubscriptionRuntimeInfoAsync(TopicName, SubscriptionName);
            var countForThisSubscription = subs.MessageCount;  //// (Comes back as a Long.)               
            return countForThisSubscription;
        }