Hi, Looking for a queue or topic that had a large number of unconsumed messages would probably be a good star t.
If your server has the webconsole activated you can look at the queues and topics, for example if your server had a webconsole on port 8161: http://<server>:8161//admin/queues.jsp http://<server>:8161//admin/topics.jsp If your server has JMX enabled, you could connect to it with JConsole and browse t he MBeans for the broker, looking at the MemoryPercentUsage attributes of the queues and topics. Or, if the server has the jolokia JMX to HTTP bridge enabled, you can access the MBeans via that: $ curl -s -d '{"type":"read","mbean":"org.apache.activemq:brokerName=amq-prod-1,destinationName=AL.FAILED,destinationType=Queue,type=Broker","attribute":"MemoryPercentUsage"}' http://amq-prod-1 a :8161/api/jolokia/ | jq . { "timestamp": 1460643204, "status": 200, "request": { "mbean": "org.apache.activemq:brokerName=amq-prod-1,destinationName=AL.FAILED,destinationType=Queue,type=Broker", "attribute": "MemoryPercentUsage", "type": "read" }, "value": 0 } That example shows me querying my server amq-prod-1a (broker name amq-prod-1), and asking it to tell me the MemoryPercentUsage of the AL.FAILED queue. The value happens to be zero in this case, so it's not using any memory. Jim