Negative message count on ActiveMQ Artemis

Question

In ActiveMQ Artemis 2.14.0 what does it mean if I see a negative message count in the web console? The server recently crashed from high heap usage. I'm trying to solve that. I restarted Artemis but I can't find anything in the docs about negative message counts.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66049917/negative-message-count-on-activemq-artemis

Answer 1

A negative message count is almost always the result of a bug or perhaps the corruption of internal state due to a JVM issue (e.g. running out of heap). There's no documentation on it because it shouldn't happen. If you encounter this situation during normal operation file a bug report in the ActiveMQ Artemis Jira. Please include a full description of the use-case and a reproducer if possible.