ActiveMQ - delete/purge all queue via command line

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Ayelet picture Ayelet · Dec 3, 2014 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

Is there a way to delete / purge all queues in ActiveMQ via the command line (win/linux)? I could only find the commands for a specific queue. Or maybe there's a way to do this via the activeMQ admin? Again, I only found how to delete/purge the queues one by one, which can be very tedious.

Thanks!

Answer

Vihar picture Vihar · Dec 3, 2014

You can do tweak your activemq.xml a bit:

<broker deleteAllMessagesOnStartup="true"  ...>

This works with KahaDB message stores (it has problems with JDBC message stores), all your messages get deleted and subsequently queues are cleared.

As you want all queues to be deleted, restarting the broker won't be a costly option to clean everything up.

The purge will happen on 'every' restart

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