Google cloud pub sub not receiving push notification to my endpoint - google-cloud-pubsub

I am using google cloud pub-sub push notifications to receive the latest emails.
But I am not receiving any notification at my endpoint.
What can be the issue, or how can I find out the issue?

In the Subscription page you can find the details about the following details:
Unacked message count
Oldest unacked message age
From those two metrics you can try to debug whether the message actually received in the subscription or not.
Hope it helps.

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Status of the topic

I have watch/subscribed to the topic using the following code.
request = {
'labelIds': ['INBOX'],
'topicName': 'projects/myproject/topics/mytopic'
}
gmail.users().watch(userId='me', body=request).execute()
How can I get the status of the topic at any given point in time? The problem is, sometimes I am not getting the push from Gmail for any incoming emails.
From the Cloud Pub/Sub perspective, if you want to check on the status of messages, you could look at metrics via Stackdriver. There are many Cloud Pub/Sub metrics that are available. You can create graphs on any of the metrics that will be mentioned later by going to Stackdriver, creating a new dashboard, clicking on "Add Chart," and then typing in the name of the metric in the "Find resource type and metric box:
The first thing you have to determine is whether the issue is on the publish side (from Gmail into your topic) or on the subscribe side (from the subscription to your push endpoint). To determine if the topic is receiving messages, look at the topic/send_message_operation_count metric. This should be non-zero at points where messages were sent from Gmail to the topic. If it is always zero, then it is likely that the connection from Gmail to Cloud Pub/Sub is not set up properly, e.g., you need to grant publish rights to the topic. Note that results are delayed, so from the time you expect a message to have been sent to when it would be reflected on the graph could be up to 5 minutes.
If the messages are successfully being sent to Pub/Sub, then you'll want to see the status of attempts to receive those messages. If your subscription is a push subscription, then you'll want to look at subscription/push_request_count for the subscription. Results are grouped by response code. If the responses are in the 400 or 500 ranges, then Cloud Pub/Sub is attempting to deliver messages to your subscriber, but the subscriber is returning errors. In this case, it is likely an issue with your subscriber itself.
If you are using the Cloud Pub/Sub client libraries, then you'll want to look at properties like subscription/streaming_pull_message_operation_count to determine if your subscriber is managing to try to fetch messages for a subscription. If you are calling the pull method directly in your subscriber, then you'll want to look at subscription/pull_message_operation_count to see if there are pull requests returning successfully to your subscriber.
If the metrics for push, pull, or streaming pull indicate errors, that should help to narrow down the problem. If there are no requests at all, then it indicates that the subscribers may not There could be permission problems, e.g., the subscriber is running as a user that doesn't have permission to read from subscriptions.

Get time of message receipt by pubsub topic

As a subscriber to a pubsub topic, is it possible for me to find out what time a message was received by pubsub? That is, can a subscriber that has just received a message find out what time the corresponding publisher published the message?
This is possible with a pull subscriber. Use the publishTime field of PubsubMessage.
If you are using a client library, read the library docs on how to access this. For example, with the python client lib, it is accessible via the publish_time field on the Message class.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub - Stopped triggering push to endpoint

It was working fine till last day and suddenly stopped pushing to endpoint. Checked all settings including endpoint URL and found everything remains unchanged. Can you guys suggest possible causes.
Not receiving a message on a push endpoint could happen for many reasons. The first thing to do would be to go to Stackdriver and create a graph for the subscription/push_request_count metric. You can break this down by response_code to see how many requests Cloud Pub/Sub is sending to your push endpoint and what response codes it is returning. If there are requests being delivered that are returning errors, this graph will show that.
It might also be worth checking the publish side to ensure messages are still being published as expected. You can look at the topic/send_message_operation_count metric, which can also be broken down by response_code, to make sure the publish requests are all returning success.
You should also check to ensure the subscription still exists using the Pub/Sub Subscriptions page in the Cloud console. After 30 days of inactivity (including inability to successfully deliver a message to a push endpoint), subscriptions are potentially deleted.
If the issue still unsolved after those steps, it is best to contact Google Cloud support with your project ID and subscription name so that things can be investigated for your specific case.

saving google pub/sub messages in file or csv or mq

I know that in google cloud pub/sub, message will be lost after 7 days regardless of their acknowledgement state. Is there anyway we can send and store those messages in a file or csv or mq even after 7 days. My aim is whenever publisher publishes message this message should store in other place also.
Thanks,
santosh
There is no automatic way to store the messages that are published into Google Cloud Pub/Sub, but you could set up a subscriber that would store the messages as they are published. You would create a separate subscription on your topic that would be used for making the backups. Then, you would write a subscriber that reads messages using this subscription and immediately persists them in the desired place and format. You could use Cloud Dataflow to solve this by connecting a PubSubIO on the input side with a TextIO on the output side.

Google Channel API sends a message to all clients

I created a working Google Channel AP and now I would like to send a message to all clients.
I have two servlets. The first creates the channel and tells the clients the userid and token. The second one is called by an http post and should send the message.
To send a message to a client, I use:
channelService.sendMessage(new ChannelMessage(channelUserId, "This is a server message!"));
This sends the message just to one client. How could I send this to all?
Have I to store every Id which I use to create a channel and send the message for every id? How could I pass the Ids to the second servlet?
Using Channel API it is not possible to create one channel and then having many subscribers to it. The server creates a unique channel for individual JavaScript clients, so if you have the same Client ID the messages will be received only by one.
If you want to send the same message to multiple clients, in short, you will have to keep a track of active clients and send the same message to all of them.
If that approach sounds scary and messy, consider using PubNub for your push notification messages, where you can easily create one channel and have many subscribers. To make it run on Google App Engine is not that hard, since they support almost any platform or device.
I know this is an old question, but I just finished an open source project that uses the Channel API to implement a publish/subscribe model, i.e. you can have multiple users subscribe to a single topic, and then all those subscribers will be notified when anyone publishes a message to the topic. It also has some nice features like automatic message persistence if desired, and "return receipts", where a subscriber can be notified whenever OTHER subscribers receive that message. See https://github.com/adevine/gaewebpubsub#gae-web-pubsub. Licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

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