replay-aws-dlq

Re-drive AWS (dead letter) queue messages to target queue

Installation

$ npm install -g @cnnrrss/replay-aws-dlq

Usage

The following command will move all messages in [from] queue [to] queue where source queue is usually a dead-letter queue, and the destination queue is it's pairing queue.

replay-aws-dlq \
--from https://sqs.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/718583902179/samstarter-v2-UploadAssetDLQ-XXFMZ0C9N5KP \
--to https://sqs.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/718583902179/samstarter-v2-UploadAsset-1CF6W6RO07PGF \
# throttle messages in seconds, optional
--throttle 1 \ 
# delay in seconds the delivery of the messages to the destination queue, optional
--delay 60 \
# maxAttempts to redrive from dlq to destination queue, default 1
--maxAttempts 1 \
# message attributes to copy, optional
--attrs another-one a-third-one

This module use AWS sdk beneath so you shall be able to use env variables to work across different accounts, e.g. the example below use AWS profile.

AWS_PROFILE=staging replay-aws-dlq ...

Special Note for FIFO queue

Please be aware if destination queue you're driving messages to, is FIFO queue that has enabled deduplication, and messages in DLQ were original come from it, you'll need to cool down for at least 5 mins internal before you can start driving messages back, otherwise you messages will end up not showing in the dest queue.

Credit

Thanks Garry Yao for the initial verion of this package. This package is a simple fork of his efforts of the same name, extended to provide a few additional options.

License

MIT © Garry Yao