Configure consumer_timeout for RabbitMQ

Amazon MQ now supports the ability for customers to create and apply configurations to their RabbitMQ broker on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to define the RabbitMQ delivery acknowledgement timeout (consumer_timeout) value and enable operator policies using the RabbitMQ configuration format (Cuttlefish).

Whats' new post - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-mq-managed-configuration-rabbitmq-brokers/ Developer guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-broker-configuration-parameters.html

Hi there,

Kindly note that we currently support the configuration of the consumer_timeout on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers. You may open a support case to Amazon MQ support and request for your broker to be configured with the desired consumer_timeout.

Update 2023

Customers can now perform the configuration themselves. Please refer to the following:

Whats' new post - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-mq-managed-configuration-rabbitmq-brokers/ Developer guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/latest/developer-guide/rabbitmq-broker-configuration-parameters.html

Please note this is supported by opening a support case and sending a ticket to our team. In future we plan to add self-configuration.

Thank you for your reponse.

The ability to tweak this parameter will be indeed great. We're going to rollback to 3.8.11 however we have to spin up a new instance and will lose our current queues, which is less than ideal.

Hello,
We have recently moved to AmazonMQ and after moving we found the same issue of our jobs timing out. Is there an ETA on this feature?

Thanks.

Hi, same thing here. Any updates on the work to have the capability to change rabbitmq.conf, or maybe at least consumer_timeout? Thank you.

Hi @Trevor Requesting this change through a Support Ticket doesn’t make sense... What if I have the Basic Plan and can't open Support Tickets? Thanks.

Hello, I write this message to check if anyone can help me. I trying to disable consumer_timeout, because in my case not make sense have consumer_timeout. I tried to pass in AmazonMQ configuration the consumer_timeout as undefined, as rabbimq documentation explain, but not working. Someone can help me?

For me, creating a new configuration under Configurations -> Configurations and just adding the line:

consumer_timeout = 108000000

worked. This value is in miliseconds, so in this case would be 30 hours. Adjust the value that you need accordingly, and then assign the newly created configuration to the broker.