Check RabbitMQ queue size from client

Does anyone know if there's a way to check the number of messages in a RabbitMQ queue from a client application?

I'm using the .NET client library.

You can actually retrieve this via the client.

When you perform a queue_declare operation, RabbitMQ returns a tuple with three values: (<queue name>, <message count>, <consumer count>). The passive argument to queue_declare allows you to check whether a queue exists without modifying the server state, so you can use queue_declare with the passive option to check the queue length.

Not sure about .NET, but in Python, it looks something like this:

name, jobs, consumers = chan.queue_declare(queue=queuename, passive=True)

I am 2 years too late but I was searching for it myself and found that rabbitmq gives u simple script to communicate to erlang nodes..its in sbin folder where the starting script for RabbitMQ is located..so you can basically say

./rabbitmqctl list_queues

this will display the queues along with the count of messages pending to those queues similarly you can also say

./rabbitmqctl list_channels
./rabbitmqctl list_connections

etc. For more info you can visit here

If you want to do this in .NET, check which version of the client library you are using.

I'm using the 2.2.0 version and I had to use BasicGet(queue, noAck).
In this version of the library, QueueDeclare() only returns a string containing the queue name.

BasicGetResult result = channel.BasicGet("QueueName", false);
uint count = result != null ? result.MessageCount : 0;

I know from the 2.6.1 version, QueueDeclare() returns an object of type QueueDeclareOk.

QueueDeclareOk result = channel.QueueDeclare();
uint count = result.MessageCount;

Alternatively, you can call from the command line:

<InstallPathToRabbitMq>\sbin\rabbitmqctl.bat list_queues

And you see the following output:

Listing queues...
QueueName 1
...done.

I'm using version 3.3.1 of the .NET client library.

I use the following, which is very similar to Ralph Willgoss's second suggestion, but you can supply the queue name as an argument.

QueueDeclareOk result = channel.QueueDeclarePassive(queueName);
uint count = result != null ? result.MessageCount : 0;

my little snippet based on Myydrralls' answer. I think if he had code in his answer I might have noticed it much quicker.

public uint GetMessageCount(string queueName)
{
    using (IConnection connection = factory.CreateConnection())
    using (IModel channel = connection.CreateModel())
    {
        return channel.MessageCount(queueName);
    }
}