3 Essential Alarms for your AWS SQS Queue

Create them with the Serverless Framework!

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…