Agent Engineering

Dead-Letter Queue

A separate destination for messages that meet a configured failure or rejection policy, allowing investigation without continuously blocking ordinary work. A dead-letter queue is not a repair mechanism or permanent archive. Its routing, retention, monitoring, ownership, and controlled reprocessing procedure must be configured explicitly.

Also called: DLQ

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