A failure needs to be narrowed down before settings are changed or operations retried. Which evidence best separates application errors from environment and dependency problems?

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Inspect connection errors, queue depth, unacknowledged messages and consumer availability. Check memory and disk alarms, which can block publishers. Distinguish a missing binding from a consumer failure before replaying messages or changing acknowledgement behavior.

What should I check first when RabbitMQ fails?

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