Modern versions of RabbitMQ have a delivery acknowledgement timeout:
In modern RabbitMQ versions, a timeout is enforced on consumer delivery acknowledgement. This helps detect buggy (stuck) consumers that never acknowledge deliveries. Such consumers can affect node’s on disk data compaction and potentially drive nodes out of disk space.
If a consumer does not ack its delivery for more than the timeout value (30 minutes by default), its channel will be closed with a PRECONDITION_FAILED channel exception. The error will be logged by the node that the consumer was connected to.
Error message will be:
Channel error on connection <####> :
operation none caused a channel exception precondition_failed: consumer ack timed out on channel 1
Timeout by default is 30 minutes (1,800,000ms)note 1 and is configured by the consumer_timeout parameter in rabbitmq.conf.
note 1: Timeout was 15 minutes (900,000ms) before RabbitMQ 3.8.17.