Sometimes Amazon SQS Dead-Letter Queues do not behave as expected. The following are common problems or issues and their solutions:
- Message moved to Dead-Letter Queue:
Viewing messages from the AWS console might cause problems with a message and move it to a Dead-Letter Queue. You can adjust this behavior in the following way:
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- For the corresponding queue's redrive policy, increase the Maximum Receives setting
- From AWS Management Console, avoid viewing the corresponding queue messages
- Send and receive messages doesn't match:
When a message is sent to a Dead-Letter Queue manually, it will be captured by the NumberOfMessagesSent metric. If, however, a message is sent to a Dead-Letter Queue as a result ...
