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Know if you are dropping messages from a subscriber queue?

asked 2011-08-24 06:21:51 -0500

Chad Rockey

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Is there a way to know when or how many messages are being dropped from a subscriber queue?

I'm mostly interested in occasionally reporting that node foo has dropped N packets since execution began.

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answered 2011-08-24 07:41:58 -0500

Patrick Bouffard

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For messages that have a header field, I would think you could check that header.seq increments by only 1 for each message received. This is assuming all the messages are coming from a single publisher--there might also be some other wrinkles that don't spring immediately to mind.

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Actually, I was wondering if I had to use the header sequence for exactly this reason. I was avoiding putting the header in since the rest of the information isn't useful. I suppose you could always just add and set your own seq integer if you didn't want to use the full header.

Chad Rockey ( 2011-08-24 07:44:51 -0500 )edit

Checking the header field could work if you have only one publisher, but breaks down if more than one node is publishing messages on a topic.

bkx ( 2012-03-28 05:01:30 -0500 )edit

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