Quarantine poison messages in queues

Prompt that quarantines repeatedly failing queue messages and defines safe replay. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then quarantines poison messages in queues.

Topic: Apps & prototypes
Type: Prompt
Level: Intermediate
Time: about 15 min

Results depend on the tool, the model and what you enter.

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Queue: webhook.apply Failure: JSON schema reject ×12 Poison after 5 fails or 1 h Quarantine: body + headers + error Alert: on-call + owner channel Replay: after schema fix, manual only

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Help me quarantine poison messages in a queue.
Queue: [Queue]
Failure: [Failure]
Consumer: [Consumer]
Steps: 1. Read how retries and dead-lettering work today. 2. Define poison criteria: count, error class and age. 3. Design a quarantine store with payload, headers and last error. 4. Separate automatic retry from manual replay after a fix. 5. Name alerts and ownership for the quarantine. 6. Write a safe replay checklist.
Output: poison rule, quarantine design, alerts, ownership and replay checklist.

Take particular care to quarantine after a hard retry budget, then fix and replay with care.

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Paste retry settings, sample error and message shape, without personal payloads.

Why does this work?

Infinite retries on one bad message starve healthy traffic. Quarantine after a hard budget, then fix and replay.

Tips

Keep the original headers and body; strip secrets before humans inspect.

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