--- title: "3 Essential Alarms for your AWS SQS Queue" url: https://daily.dev/posts/3-essential-alarms-for-your-aws-sqs-queue-bcmaea4j8 source_url: https://implementing.substack.com/p/3-essential-alarms-for-aws-sqs-queue type: article source: "Implementing" published: 2025-06-23T06:45:16.005Z updated: 2025-06-23T06:45:38.094Z tags: ["aws", "serverless", "monitoring", "aws-cloudwatch"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3 Essential Alarms for your AWS SQS Queue **[Implementing](https://daily.dev/sources/implementing)** · 4 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AWS SQS queues require proper monitoring to ensure event-driven architectures function correctly. Three essential CloudWatch alarms should be configured: message production monitoring using NumberOfMessagesSent metric, consumer activity detection combining ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible and NumberOfMessagesReceived metrics, and dead letter queue monitoring using ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible. These alarms can be implemented using the Serverless Framework with specific YAML configurations that trigger SNS notifications when thresholds are breached. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#monitoring](https://daily.dev/tags/monitoring), [#aws-cloudwatch](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-cloudwatch) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/3-essential-alarms-for-your-aws-sqs-queue-bcmaea4j8)