When implementing event driven architectures based on queues, it is essential to monitor that the pipeline is functioning.
For AWS queues using the SQS service, you can create these 3 Cloudwatch alarms to help you ensure everything is working correctly:
Message production
Consumer is inactive, there are messages in the queue but the consumer is not retriev…
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