1. What is Message Queues for? #
Monitor Kafka, RabbitMQ and other brokers, and link producers and consumers.
The principle #
The Message Queues app monitors message queues and detects anomalies in critical apps. It relies on automatic broker detection and end-to-end traces, which link a producer to its consumers across the queue.
2. Key features #
What the app offers.
Overview #
| Feature | Role |
|---|---|
| Brokers | Kafka and RabbitMQ in the app; ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Tibco EMS covered by queue monitoring |
| Traces de bout en bout | Producer and consumers linked in one trace |
| Extension Apache Kafka | Topology (topics, brokers, producers, consumers) from JMX metrics |
| Anomalies | Detection of abnormal behavior on critical queues |
3. Getting started #
First steps.
Step by step #
- Check that OneAgent instruments producers and consumers.
- For Kafka, enable the Apache Kafka extension and the OneAgent Java Metric Extensions 2.0 (JMX) feature.
- Open Message Queues and spot slowing queues.
- Follow a trace to see where the message waits.
Prerequisites #
- OneAgent on services; Kafka extension for the broker view.
To check in your environment. The Hub listing describes the app; we found no detailed guide in the documentation. The old Kafka extension is deprecated in favor of the new one.
Sources #
From the official documentation consulted in November 2026: labels and availability change with platform versions.
