Comparison with Azure Service Bus Portal

What does QueueExplorer offer that is not available from Azure portal?

Explorer-like operations

• Preview of all queue messages - see all messages from a queue or subscription.

• Delete, Move or Copy messages between queues or topics using drag&drop or clipboard operations.

• Save/load - one or several messages can be selected at once and saved to a file. Messages can be loaded later to the same or another queue, on the same or different computer. This is great for backup purposes or for saving messages for later testing.

• Access to deadletter queues - check and fully manage deadletter queues.

• Scheduled/deferred messages - inspect and manage all scheduled or deferred messages in a queue.

• Sessions - access to all sessions in a queue, with messages inside them.

• Subscription rules/filters - inspect and adjust subscription rules and filters.

• Sort messages by any available field.

• Filtering messages by any field.

• Connect to multiple namespaces

• Group namespaces

• Tabbed interface

• Custom folders (PRO)

Message related features

• Edit messages - body and most important fields are editable.

• Save/load of message bodies

• Create test messages - easy creation of messages for testing purposes. Body can be loaded from file or entered in text field.

• Additional message properties - custom properties

Schema (metadata) features (PRO)

• Export/import definitions of queueing objects - queues, topics, subscriptions.

• Copy/paste definitions of queueing objects.

• Compare schemas you can compare imported schema without applying changes.

Performance testing

• Bulk sender - easily send thousands of messages for performance and scalability testing, with adjustable delay after each message.