Dead Letter Queues

Summary

A separate queue where messages that repeatedly fail processing get routed instead of being retried forever or silently dropped — lets you inspect and fix failures without losing data.

• 1Configure a dead letter queue for a job queue and trigger a message to land there.
• 2Build a simple process for reviewing and reprocessing dead-lettered messages.
• 3Learn why silently dropping failed messages is a common, costly mistake.