Getting number of messages in a RabbitMQ queue

Using pika: import pika pika_conn_params = pika.ConnectionParameters( host=”localhost”, port=5672, credentials=pika.credentials.PlainCredentials(‘guest’, ‘guest’), ) connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika_conn_params) channel = connection.channel() queue = channel.queue_declare( queue=”your_queue”, durable=True, exclusive=False, auto_delete=False ) print(queue.method.message_count) Using PyRabbit: from pyrabbit.api import Client cl = Client(‘localhost:55672’, ‘guest’, ‘guest’) cl.get_messages(‘example_vhost’, ‘example_queue’)[0][‘message_count’] Using HTTP Syntax: curl -i -u user:password http://localhost:15672/api/queues/vhost/queue Example: curl -i -u guest:guest http://localhost:15672/api/queues/%2f/celery Note: … Read more