Are you using ActiveMQ Classic or ActiveMQ Artemis? Also which version are you using?
Justin On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM Ephemeris Lappis <ephemeris.lap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm looking for a simple way to clean DLQ queues on our ActiveMQ brokers. > Messages are moved to DLQ queues when some unexpected conditions lead > consumers to fail. We've no automatic processing for DLQ messages that are > only needed for diagnosis. Nevertheless, when the queues contain too many > messages, the ActiveMQ console or alternative browsing tools are not able > to handle them, and, by the way, thousands of messages are useless. This is > why we're looking for a periodic cleaning. For example, we could remove all > messages that are older than N days. > > A JMS selector can be used to check the JMSTimestamp is before a given > time. But I can't find any way to write a route with a JMS 'from' statement > that could evaluate something like : JMSTimestamp < NOW() - INTERVAL '7 > days'... > > I imagine that more complex solutions could be considered, consuming all > the DLQ queues messages, and moving them to other queues with an expiration > time, setting a policy to delete expired messages. But this is not our > first choice... > > I've also searched for a way to force ActiveMQ to set an expiration time on > all DLQ messages, but It seems it's not possible. > > Any ideas are welcome ! > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards. >
