Command-line tool (Windows/macOS/Linux) to interact with the Amazon MQ message broker. Interaction with a regular ActiveMQ broker (JMX not required) is also supported. The ActiveMQ Web Console must be available for amazonmq-cli to function properly.

Download amazonmq-cli in the release section of this repository.

Unzip the amazonmq-cli-x.x.x.zip file and configure the broker you want to connect to in amazonmq-cli-x.x.x/conf/amazonmq-cli.config:

broker {
  my-aws-broker {
    web-console = "https://your-amazon-mq-broker-host:8162/admin/"
    amqurl = "ssl://your-amazon-mq-broker-host:61617"
    username = "admin"
    password = ""
    prompt-color = "light-blue" // Possible values: "gray", "red", "light-red", "light-green", "green", "light-yellow", "yellow", "light-blue", "blue", "light-purple", "purple", "light-cyan", "cyan", "light-white", "white"
  }

  // add additional brokers here
  test {
    web-console = "https://your-amazon-mq-test-broker-host:8162/admin/"
    amqurl = "ssl://your-amazon-mq-test-broker-host:61617"
    username = "admin"
    password = "secret"
    prompt-color = "light-blue" // Possible values: "gray", "red", "light-red", "light-green", "green", "light-yellow", "yellow", "light-blue", "blue", "light-purple", "purple", "light-cyan", "cyan", "light-white", "white"
  } 
}

To enter the amazonmq-cli shell run amazonmq-cli-x.x.x/bin/amazonmq-cli or amazonmq-cli-x.x.x/bin/amazonmq-cli.bat if you are using Windows.

amazonmq-cli provides tab completion to speed up typing commands, to see which commands are available and what parameters are supported.

In addition to executing commands in the shell, amazonmq-cli also supports executing a file containing commands: amazonmq-cli --cmdfile my_commands.txt

To connect to a broker that is configured in amazonmq-cli-x.x.x/conf/amazonmq-cli.config: connect --broker dev

Below is a list of commands that amazonmq-cli supports.

Adds a queue.

• name

Example:add-queue --name foo

Adds a topic.

• name

Example:add-topic --name foo

Browse messages. The browse operation may not return all messages due to limitations of broker configuration and system resources.

• queue
• selector (browse messages that match the (JMS) selector)
• regex (browse messages whose body match the regex)

Example 1:browse-messages --queue foo

Example 2:browse-messages --queue foo --selector "JMSCorrelationID = '12345'"

Example 3:browse-messages --queue foo --regex bar

Connects amazonmq-cli to a broker.

• broker (broker must be defined in amazonmq-cli-x.x.x/conf/amazonmq-cli.config)

Example:connect --broker my-aws-broker

Copies messages from a queue to another queue.

• from
• to
• selector (copy messages that match the (JMS) selector)

Example:copy-messages --from foo --to bar

For this command amazonmq-cli consumes all messages from the --from queue and sends the messages back to the --from and --to queues. In flight messages are not in scope of this command.

Disconnects amazonmq-cli from the broker.

Example:disconnect

Exports messages to file.

• file
• queue
• selector (export messages that match the (JMS) selector)

Example:export-messages --queue foo

For this command amazonmq-cli consumes all messages from the --from queue and sends the messages back to the --from queue. In flight messages are not in scope of this command.

Displays information (e.g. version, uptime, total number of queues/topics/messages) about the broker

Example:info

Browses messages. This command may not return all messages due to limitations of broker configuration and system resources. Use export-messages to retrieve all messages of a queue.

• queue
• selector (lists messages that match the (JMS) selector)
• regex (lists messages whose body match the regex)

Example 1:browse-messages --queue foo

Example 2:browse-messages --queue foo --selector "JMSCorrelationID = '12345'"

Example 3:browse-messages --queue foo --regex bar

Lists queues.

• filter (list queues with the specified filter in the name)
• pending (list queues for which the number of pending messages meets the pending filter)
• enqueued (list queues for which the number of enqueued messages meets the enqueued filter)
• dequeued (list queues for which the number of dequeued messages meets the dequeued filter)
• consumers (list queues for which the number of consumers meets the consumers filter)

Example 1:queues --filter foo

Example 2:queues --pending >0 --consumers =0

Lists topics.

• filter (list topics with the specified filter in the name)
• enqueued (remove topics for which the number of enqueued messages meets the enqueued filter)
• dequeued (remove topics for which the number of dequeued messages meets the dequeued filter)

Example 1:topics --filter foo

Example 2:topics --enqueued >0

Moves messages from a queue to another queue.

• from
• to
• selector (move messages that match the (JMS) selector)

For this command amazonmq-cli consumes all messages from the --from queue and sends the messages to the --to queue. In flight messages are not in scope of this command.

Purges all queues.

• force (no prompt for confirmation)
• dry-run (use this to test what is going to be purged, no queues are actually purged)
• filter (queues with the specified filter in the name)
• pending (purge queues for which the number of pending messages meets the pending filter)
• enqueued (purge queues for which the number of enqueued messages meets the enqueued filter)
• dequeued (purge queues for which the number of dequeued messages meets the dequeued filter)
• consumers (purge queues for which the number of consumers meets the consumers filter)

Example 1:purge-all-queues

Example 2:purge-all-queues --filter foo --consumers =0 --dry-run

Purges a queues.

• name
• force (no prompt for confirmation)

Example:purge-queue --name foo

Displays the release notes.

Example:release-notes

Removes all queues.

• force (no prompt for confirmation)
• dry-run (use this to test what is going to be removed, no queues are actually removed)
• filter (queues with the specified filter in the name)
• pending (remove queues for which the number of pending messages meets the pending filter)
• enqueued (remove queues for which the number of enqueued messages meets the enqueued filter)
• dequeued (remove queues for which the number of dequeued messages meets the dequeued filter)
• consumers (remove queues for which the number of consumers meets the consumers filter)

Example 1:remove-all-queues

Example 2:remove-all-queues --filter foo --consumers =0 --dry-run

Removes all topics.

• force (no prompt for confirmation)
• dry-run (use this to test what is going to be removed, no queues are actually removed)
• filter (queues with the specified filter in the name)
• enqueued (remove topics for which the number of enqueued messages meets the enqueued filter)
• dequeued (remove topics for which the number of dequeued messages meets the dequeued filter)

Example 1:remove-all-topics

Example 2:remove-all-topics --filter foo --enqueued =0 --dry-run

Removes a queue.

• name
• force (no prompt for confirmation)

Example:remove-queue --name foo

Removes a topic.

• name
• force (no prompt for confirmation)

Example:remove-topic --name foo

Sends a message or file of messages to a queue or topic.

• body
• queue
• topic
• priority (not applicable if -file is specified)
• correlation-id (not applicable if -file is specified)
• reply-to (not applicable if -file is specified)
• delivery-mode (not applicable if -file is specified)
• time-to-live (not applicable if -file is specified)
• times (number of times the message is sent)
• file

Example file:

<jms-messages>
  <jms-message>
    <body>Message 1</body>
  </jms-message>
  <jms-message>
    <body>Message 2</body>
  </jms-message>  
  <jms-message>
    <header>
      <priority>0</priority>
      <correlation-id>12345</correlation-id>
      <reply-to>myRepliesQueue</reply-to>
      <delivery-mode>2</delivery-mode>
      <time-to-live>1000</time-to-live>
    </header>
    <properties>
      <property>
        <name>my_custom_property</name>
        <value>1</value>
      </property>        
    </properties>      
    <body><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
   <book id="1">
      <author>Basil, Matthew</author>
      <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>44.95</price>
      <publish_date>2002-10-01</publish_date>
      <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
   </book>
</catalog>]]></body>
  </jms-message>  
</jms-messages>

Example 1:send-message --body foo --queue bar

Example 2:send-message --file foo.xml --topic bar