why RabbitMQ shows activity on Message rates but not on Queued messages?

Question

I have this issue, I want to know my rabbit is working great.

I am not gonna send the message, so, Im not 100% sure is being sent correctly. But the problem is this.

After all is configured and all....

I see at the RabbitMQ web manager

And when I supposedly send a message the I see activity on the "message rates" chart but nothing at the "queued messages" .

I frankly dont know whats going on, is it too fast that doesnt need to queue the messages? Or something is misconfigured?

Any idea of the difference?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In case RabbitMQ receive non-routable message it drop it. So while message was received, it was not queued.

You may configure Alternate Exchanges to catch such messages.