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3 Essential Alarms for your AWS SQS Queue

Create them with the Serverless Framework!

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Marco Moauro
Jun 23, 2025
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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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