Start message queue consumers

In addition to the command arguments described in this topic, see Common arguments.

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You must start a message queue consumer to enable asynchronous operations such as Inventory Management mass actions and REST bulk and asynchronous endpoints. To enable B2B functionality, you must start multiple consumers. Third-party modules might also require that you start a custom consumer.

View a list of available message queue consumers

To view a list of all consumers:

bin/magento queue:consumers:list

To start message queue consumers:

bin/magento queue:consumers:start [--max-messages=<value>] [--batch-size=<value>] [--single-thread] [--area-code=<value>] [--multi-process=<value>] <consumer_name>

After consuming all available messages, the command terminates. You can run the command again manually or with a cron job. You can also run multiple instances of the magento queue:consumers:start command to process large message queues. For example, you can append & to the command to run it in the background, return to a prompt, and continue running commands:

bin/magento queue:consumers:start <consumer_name> &

See queue:consumers:start in the Magento command-line reference for details about the command options, parameters, and values.

The --multi-process option is present in the queue:consumers:start command, but to run consumers with parallel processes, configure the multiple_processes option in /app/etc/env.php. Otherwise, if queue:consumers:start is called with the --multi-process option, it will only work on a single thread.