Since users start asking about whether log4j vulnerability affects our product, here’s how things are: QueueExplorer, QueueMonitor, and Cogin web site do not use Java in any way, and therefore do not use log4j either. If you have a checklist of all apps and services you’re using and have to check for this issue, you […]
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MSMQ Heartbeat checks with QueueMonitor
Here’s how wikipedia describes heartbeats in computing: In computer science, a heartbeat is a periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a computer system. How can we apply heartbeats to MSMQ? We can start with simple heartbeat checks – QueueMonitor sends message to a queue, […]
Installing QueueMonitor on a cluster
QueueMonitor since version 1.5.9 can be installed on a Windows Server cluster as clustered application. Main addition to v1.5.9 release was ability to put QueueMonitor’s data folder on shared Cluster storage. That way there will be single shared task database used by both nodes. Or to be more precise – used by whichever cluster node […]
Automatically resend expired MSMQ dead letter messages using QueueMonitor
There were few inquires recently on what to do with messages which were moved by MSMQ to dead letter queue because they reached “Time to be received” timeout. When is Time to be received property useful? Sometimes messages are of temporary value and are not important unless they are processed immediately. For instance if we use queue […]
QueueMonitor 1.0 released
Thanks for your feedback and support during beta testing of QueueMonitor! That helped us a lot to reach v1.0. What’s new for v1.0? Apart from smaller fixes, there are two significant improvements. First one is import/export of tasks. It makes it easy to configure tasks on one server and transfer them to another one. Or to create backup before […]
QueueMonitor Beta – monitoring and automation for MSMQ
QueueMonitor Beta is here Thanks for your support during alpha testing of QueueMonitor! That helped us a lot to reach this point. We are now ready for Beta stage. What does Beta mean in our case? It means QueueMonitor passes our internal tests, doesn’t have any known issues and doesn’t consume much memory or CPU […]