This document is for Kombu's development version, which can be significantly different from previous releases. Get the stable docs here: 5.3.

User Guide

Release:

5.6

Date:

Mar 06, 2026

• Introduction
  • What is messaging?
  • Messaging Scenarios
  • Reliability
• Connections and transports
  • Basics
  • Debug Logs
  • Celery with SQS
  • URLs
  • Keyword arguments
  • AMQP Transports
  • Transport Comparison
  • Transport Options
• Producers
  • Basics
  • Serialization
  • Reference
• Consumers
  • Basics
  • Consumer mixin classes
  • Advanced Topics
  • Reference
• Examples
  • Hello World Example
  • Task Queue Example
  • Native Delayed Delivery
• Simple Interface
  • Sending and receiving messages
• Connection and Producer Pools
  • Default Pools
  • The producer pool group
  • Custom Pool Groups
• Serialization
  • Serializers
  • Sending raw data without Serialization
  • Creating extensions using Setuptools entry-points
• Automatic Failover
  • Connection failover
  • Operation failover
  • Producer
  • Consumer