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Delivery Statuses and Retries

Understand pending, success, retrying, and dead states and how to respond to each.

1 min readUpdated February 24, 2026Edit this page

Delivery status indicates message progression after routing.

Status definitions

pending

Delivery is queued and not completed yet.

success

Destination acknowledged message successfully.

retrying

Previous attempt failed and retry policy is active.

dead

Retry budget exhausted or unrecoverable failure reached.

Operational response by status

  • pending: monitor queue latency and destination availability.
  • retrying: inspect latest error and destination health.
  • dead: fix cause, then replay message safely.

Plan-level retry behavior

Retry strategy and maximum window can differ by plan and integration type.