[rabbitmq-discuss] Retry Message for 3 times and make it as dead

Thu May 15 18:55:38 BST 2014

On 15 May 2014 at 21:50:50, Srinath Sridharan -X (srinatsr - ZENSAR TECHNOLOGIES INC at Cisco) (srinatsr at cisco.com) wrote:
> >
> 1. Retry unacknowledged RabbitMQ message in 10 second interval  
> 2. Retry 3 times

Are you talking about publisher confirms or message acknowledgements? Although in both cases,
it's up to your applications:

 * With publisher confirms you fully control when and how many times you retry
 * With consumers you need to manually keep track of redeliveries (this means messages should have unique identifiers)

> 3. Put the message into the Dead Letter queue after 3 retries. 

RabbitMQ has dead letter exchanges:
http://www.rabbitmq.com/dlx.html

which can work in concert with TTL:
http://www.rabbitmq.com/ttl.html

or you could just publish a message to a queue of your choice using the default exchange
(see tutorial 1). 

> 4. Log a proper message for each action in RabbitMQ

Firehose and Tracer: http://www.rabbitmq.com/firehose.html
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MK  

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ