How to get details on a BPMN message that has been sent in Camunda Cloud?

Niall: Hey there folks!

Is there any way to get details on a BPMN message that has been sent - specifically if it was sent but never delivered.

zell: Unfortunately no, since the <Messages | Camunda Platform 8 and correlation is decoupled>. Be aware that a message can also be received by multiple instances from different processes https://docs.camunda.io/docs/components/concepts/messages/#message-cardinality

Niall: Thanks Zell, thats good to know :slightly_smiling_face:

Felix MĂĽller (Camunda): I would love to see such thing at some point in Operate :thinking_face:

Niall: Yeah, that would be handy, it would be nice to see a list of messages especially because i’m trying out the “time to live” feature and it would be nice to see an monitor the message que

Niall: Is there any kind of feature roadmap available?
I think perhaps being able to send a message and also subscribe for events from that message event, so that the sender is able to respond one a message has been for sure accepted.

zell: Check out the simple monitor which has much better support for messages https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/zeebe-simple-monitor|https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/zeebe-simple-monitor

Currently operate doesnt support messages at all

arnaud.jeansen: I asked for the same insight in the Grafana dashboard yesterday :grin:

zell: Regarding grafana: You can see in the general section the received publish message command and in the current events the completed receive tasks for example

arnaud.jeansen: I see the latter in General > Current events.
But I don’t see the published msg count…

zell: Make sure you have enabled the gateway metrics

zell: https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe/blob/main/benchmarks/setup/default/zeebe-values.yaml#L99-L100

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