Dead letters
Messages that exhausted their retries or expired land in a dead-letter queue instead of vanishing. From here they are inspected and, once the cause is fixed, replayed back to their source.
Global dead-letter target
Queues with the global policy dead-letter here.
Dead-letter backlog --
Ready messages sitting in the global target — last 30 min.
Queues with a dead-letter policy
| Topic | Group | Policy | Max retries | Depth | Actions |
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No queue declares a dead-letter policy. Failures on those queues drop after their retries; declare a policy to keep them instead.