# Event Message Troubleshooter

> Diagnoses reliability and correctness issues in event-driven processing for Kafka and RabbitMQ. Use for retries, duplicates, ordering, dead-letter, or lag incidents.

- Skill: `jaypalsolanki/event-message-troubleshooter` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add jaypalsolanki/event-message-troubleshooter`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/jaypalsolanki/event-message-troubleshooter/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: jaypalsolanki (https://skillmd.com/u/jaypalsolanki)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/jaypalsolanki/event-message-troubleshooter

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# Event Message Troubleshooter

## Workflow

1. Capture incident symptoms, impacted topics/queues, and time window.
2. Check producer guarantees, keys, and schema compatibility.
3. Inspect consumer idempotency, retry policy, and DLQ behavior.
4. Validate offset/ack strategy and ordering assumptions.
5. Recommend immediate containment and permanent fixes.

## Output template

```md
## Incident diagnosis
- Probable cause:
- Evidence:

## Actions
- Immediate:
- Permanent:
```