# Dead Letter Queue Workflow Dead letter queue pattern for handling failed messages with retry exhaustion detection, DLQ routing, manual inspection, and reprocessing capability. **Template ID:** `dead-letter-queue-workflow` **Kind:** workflow **Source domain:** patterns **Primary use case:** uncategorized **Secondary use cases:** None **Complexity:** 3/5 **Nodes:** 7 **Lanes:** 2 **Tags:** [dead-letter-queue, dlq, message-retry, poison-message, error-handling, message-queue] **Source path:** `patterns/dead-letter-queue` **Repo path:** `uncategorized/patterns/dead-letter-queue-workflow` ## Files - `workflow.fz` — FlowZap Code source - `metadata.json` — Structured metadata