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usage: amqpsnoop [-h host] [-r routekey] [-f filter...]
Snoops AMQP messages sent to routekey using broker . All messages must be JSON-encoded objects. The following options may be specified:
-h host hostname of AMQP broker to use (default: localhost)
-r routekey routekey to bind to (default: "#")
-f filter filter expression to invoke on each message
Multiple filters may be specified. Each one is a
chunk of JavaScript code to be executed with each
message bound to variable "msg". The message is
only printed if all filters return true.
-o format output messages with the given format
Valid values are "inspect" (uses sys.inspect, the)
default), "json" and "json0" (JSON with no
indentation).
-x exchange name of exchange to use (default: "amq.topic")
Example: using broker 10.99.99.5, show all AMQP messages sent to any routing key starting with "ca." and whose "ca_subtype" member is not "ping":
amqpsnoop -h 10.99.99.5 -r "ca.#" -f 'msg.ca_subtype != "ping"'
As an npm package, node-amqpsnoop is installed in the usual way:
% npm install amqpsnoop
This tool is considered complete, though additional functionality may be added in the future.
This tool should work on all platforms that support node.js. It has been tested on MacOS X 10.6.5 and OpenSolaris based on Illumos build 147.
FAQs
snoop AMQP messages
The npm package amqpsnoop receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, amqpsnoop popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that amqpsnoop demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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