{"id":2055,"date":"2017-06-23T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2017-06-23T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:13:38","slug":"exchange-message-queue-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/exchange-message-queue-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Exchange Message Queue Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q ?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2057\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Q.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully something else\u00a0popped into your mind, not\u00a0Star Trek &#8211; The Next Generation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How about monitoring a message queue?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This will help you monitor\u00a0specifically\u00a0Exchange 2013-2016 queue changes (state or message count\u00a0beyond a value)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just specify the queue and encapsulate into a monitor<\/p>\n<p>OR&#8230; download the MP Fragment <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gallery.technet.microsoft.com\/Uncommon-Custom-MP-c5a12a86\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #337ab7\">here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>############################################################<\/h6>\n<p># Test Queues<\/p>\n<p>#Lab environment<\/p>\n<p>#$queue1 = &#8220;Submission&#8221;<br \/>\n#$queue2 = &#8220;Submission2&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">$queue1 = &#8220;CompanyName365-mail-onmicrosoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $queue2 = &#8220;clustered.testlab.net&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>##################################################################<br \/>\n# 1. How to monitor the status of the queues below (when the status is &#8220;retry&#8221; they need alert)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">$SPEvent = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like &#8220;$queue1&#8221; } | where { $_.Status -like &#8220;Retry&#8221; } | measure-object )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $SPEvent2 = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like &#8220;$queue2&#8221; } | where { $_.Status -like &#8220;Retry&#8221; } | measure-object )<\/span><\/p>\n<p>#<br \/>\n# 2. To get an alert when a message in any of these queues is stuck for &amp;gt; 5minutes<br \/>\n#<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">$SPEventStuck = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue1 } | where { $_.Status -like &#8220;Suspended&#8221; } | measure-object )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $SPEventStuck2 = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue2 } | where { $_.Status -like &#8220;Suspended&#8221; } | measure-object )<\/span><\/p>\n<p># 3. Also need alert and exact count when the message count in the above queue goes beyond 1000<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">$SPEventMC = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue1 } | where { $_.MessageCount -gt 1000 } | measure-object )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $MCQ1 = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue1 } )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $MQ1 = ($MCQ1.MessageCount)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">$SPEventMC2 = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue2 } | where { $_.MessageCount -gt 1000 } | measure-object )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $MCQ2 = ( get-queue | where { $_.NextHopDomain -like $queue2 } )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> $MQ2 = ($MCQ2.MessageCount)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q ? Hopefully something else\u00a0popped into your mind, not\u00a0Star Trek &#8211; The Next Generation &nbsp; &nbsp; How about monitoring a message queue? &nbsp; &nbsp; This will help you monitor\u00a0specifically\u00a0Exchange 2013-2016 queue changes (state or message count\u00a0beyond a value) &nbsp; Just specify the queue and encapsulate into a monitor OR&#8230; download the MP Fragment here ############################################################ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/exchange-message-queue-monitoring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exchange Message Queue Monitoring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[103,152,153,154,230,318,333,342,431,459],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp-management-pack","tag-console","tag-exchange","tag-exchange-2013","tag-exchange-2016","tag-message-count","tag-queue","tag-retry","tag-scom","tag-suspended","tag-ui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exchange Message Queue Monitoring - Kevin Justin&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/exchange-message-queue-monitoring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exchange Message Queue Monitoring - Kevin Justin&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Q ? 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