Understanding ServiceInsight and its function

ServiceInsight provides detailed insights into a specific message. It provides detail flow, timing, and error handling and the ability to retry the message, sort the message, look at its header, look at its sagas, copy the header, copy the message, and more.

We will explore this more with the ServiceMatrix examples that we will be building, but we need to familiarize ourselves with the functions of ServiceInsight. You may opt to not use some of these tools in your development, but the purpose of this chapter is to discuss these tools.

We have the Endpoint Explorer, which gives us details about a message, and a Message Properties window to drill down into the details of the message. We also have a Flow Diagram window to give us a graphical overview of the message and endpoint. Please see the following screenshot to view the Messages, Message Properties, and a Saga flow view:

This flow view is very important. Here is the graphical picture of what...