How can I test to make sure the queue connection works?
I want to add this test to our production's healthcheck file. We want it to check to make sure the QUEUE connection is working. Without having to dispatch a job.
The queue has a size method that returns the number of jobs in the queue.
You can likely use this to check the queue connection.
If things are down you will probably get some sort of exception thrown.
https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.6/src/Illuminate/Contracts/Queue/Queue.php#L13
As far as I know the only way is to send a simply job to it and make it return something or make that job call some url in your application.
Well after thinking about it for a while I think instead of dispatching a job you can simply ask for all the jobs or keys that are available. It will always give you back an array which might be empty, but at least you will get a response back.
Since Laravel 5.4 you can use the size method on the Queue facade. So something like this
Queue::size();
Documentation: https://laravel.com/api/5.6/Illuminate/Contracts/Queue/Queue.html
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