## List messages from the dashboard

Listing messages from the dashboard allows you to debug Queues or queue producers without a consumer Worker. Fetching a batch of messages to preview will not acknowledge or retry the message or affect its position in the queue. The queue can still be consumed normally by a consumer Worker.

To list messages in the dashboard:

1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com) and select your account.
2. Select **Workers & Pages** > **Queues**.
3. Select the queue to preview messages from.
4. Select the **Messages** tab.
5. Select **Queued Messages**.
6. Select a maximum batch size of messages to fetch. The size can be a number from 1 to 100. If a consumer Worker is configured, this defaults to your consumer Worker's maximum batch size.

![A form to configure how many messages are listed at a time, with a number input showing '10'](https://developers.cloudflare.com/_astro/fetch-message-batch-size.K2s9WXYF_1tNE3g.webp)

1. Select **List messages**.
2. When the list of messages loads, select the blue arrow to the right of each row to expand the message preview.

![A table showing two previewed messages, one text and one JSON, both with some placeholder text](https://developers.cloudflare.com/_astro/fetched-messages.D4HiCx2x_1E43iS.webp)

This will preview a batch of messages currently in the Queue.

## Acknowledge messages from the dashboard

Acknowledging messages from the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com) will permanently remove them from the queue, with equivalent behavior as `ack()` in a Worker.

1. Select the checkbox to the left of each row to select the message for acknowledgement, or select the checkbox in the table header to select all messages.
2. Select **Acknowledge messages**.
3. Confirm you want to acknowledge the messages, and select **Acknowledge messages**.

This will remove the selected messages from the queue and prevent consumers from processing them further.

Refer to the [Get Started guide](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/get-started/) to learn how to process and acknowledge messages from a queue in a Worker.
