Why can't you look at messages in the Rabbit Queue

Question

If my understanding is correct, you can\'t actually look at messages in the rabbit queue without taking them out and putting them back in. There\'s no way to use rabbitmqctl to

Answer 1

This is old, but just for anyone interested in this. By visiting the Queues you have a list for all the queues of the broker.

Press any queue you are interested and scroll down to find this section

The really important option to set here is the Requeue option. If is set to Yes, this operation will consume the message, so you can read it, but it will requeue it, so it won't be lost.