Knowledge base

rabbitmq-unroutable verified

Routing key for messages the broker could not route

in the configuration this is a linerabbitmq-unroutable: …

Where a published message goes when the exchange has nowhere to route it.

Values

Values
any routing key
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

Only meaningful once rabbitmq-exchange names a real exchange: with the default exchange every key is a queue name and nothing is unroutable. On a custom topology it is the safety net that keeps a mistyped binding from silently dropping results.