Every time a message is published to the queue, an event is also fired along Salt's event bus. You can use the state.event runner to listen to the event bus and display those messages in real time.
Make sure you have the salt-master service running, and the salt-minion service on at least one machine connected to it. On the Master, run the following command:
# salt-run state.event
In another terminal, issue a command to one or more Minions:
# salt '*' test.ping
In the terminal that is running the event listener, you will see the job go out to the Minions:
Event fired at Sun Dec 20 12:04:15 2015
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Tag: 20151220120415357444
Data:
{'_stamp': '2015-12-20T19:04:15.387417',
'minions': ['trotter',
'achatz']}The information contained in this event is no more than a timestamp indicating when the job was created, and a list of Minions that the specified target (in our example, all of them) are expected to execute the job and return data...