SQS payload size is nearing the limit

If the payload size of an item pushed to the queue is over the limit, the queue will not process that item. This insight is hourly checking for near or to the limit (90%+) payload sizes in your SQS queues.

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Severity: WARNING
Interval: 1 hour
Check period: 1 hour
Threshold: 90%
Maximum size: 256kB

Metrics:
METRICS.SQS.SQS_PAYLOAD_SIZE

Why do I see this?

Your messages are getting near the SQS size limit of 256KB.

What does this mean?

If the message pushed to the queue is of a larger size, the queue will not process that item. This insight is hourly checking for near or to the limit (90%+) payload sizes in your SQS queues.

SQS payload size is nearing the limit. How do I fix this?

Check the content of your messages since that warning came up.


This rule resolution is part of the Dashbird Serverless Well Architected Reports tool for AWS. Dashbird features a collection of rules and checks continuously applied to your infrastructure, surfacing ways to improve it.

Read more about the best-practices of monitoring SQS queues, identifying bottlenecks and issues and pre-empting problems automatically.

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