Purple Explorer - cross-platform Azure Service Bus explorer (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Purple Explorer is a cross-platform desktop application built with .NET 6.

It's a simple tool to help you:

• Connect to Azure Service Bus
• View topics and subscriptions
• View queues
• View active and dead-letter messages
• View message body and its details
• Send a new message
• Save messages to send them quickly
• Delete a message ^
• Purge active or dead-letter messages
• Re-submit a message from dead-letter
• Dead-letter a message ^

^ NOTE: These marked actions require receiving all the messages up to the selected message and this increases DeliveryCount. Be aware that there can be consequences to other messages in the subscription.

How to Download

Win-x64, macOS-x64, macOS-arm64 and linux-x64 pre-built binaries can be found on Releases page.

Note that you need to have .Net 6 installed first.

How to run

Windows

Right-click -> Open

You can allow windows defender to start this application:

click on More Info -> Run anyway

macOS

Right-click -> Open

You can allow macOS to start this application by enabling Developer tools for Terminal:

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy, select "Developer Tools" on the left, check terminal on the right.

You can make PurpleExplorer file executable by:

chmod +x PurpleExplorer

Linux (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and derivatives)

Right-click -> Run