Error displaying all messages in a storage queue

Question

I have a storage queue and I use Azure Storage Explorer to view its content. However, the app is limiting the number of messages I can view, and it seems to be interfering with the arrival of new messages. It's as if the storage queue becomes 'full'. I had to delete some messages to make room for new ones to arrive. These new messages that arrived, their insertion time in the queue appears as if I received them before, but I couldn't view them. Does anyone have any tips? I checked, and it's not a matter of storage account space, the messages that should appear simply don't show up.

Answer 1

Hi Fabrício,
This is a expected behavior with Azure Storage Explorer and others tools to query it , so only allows you to view up to 32 messages in a storage queue at a time.

The maximum number of messages that may be retrieved at the same time is 32.

This is a limitation from the REST API itself. If you want to fetch more messages, you would need to make multiple HTTP requests with each request asking for a maximum of 32 messages from the Storage Queue service.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/get-messages

Luis