Azure Queue body is too large and exceeds the maximum permissible limit

Question

I am getting the following error with my storage queue (NOT BLOB - I know others have seen this with the blob) when pushing the message from my c++ app to Azure Storage:

The request body is too large and exceeds the maximum permissible limit.

I'm aware that I probably need to cut the json down, but are there any other suggestions? (as in increase message size somewhere?)

David Makogon David Makogon · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-16T08:08:01

As others have stated, the Azure Storage Queue message size limit (64K) is a hard limit.

Aside from encoding, compression (minification), etc: The most common pattern to work around this limit is to not store your payload in the queue message; rather, store it in something like Blob storage, and only store the message type & metadata (if needed), along with a URI pointing to the blob containing your payload to process.

By following this pattern, and using blob storage for your payload, you effectively have potential payload size of 4+ TB. And you also have the ability to persist your payload if needed (whereas queue messages are deleted after processing).

Azure Queue body is too large and exceeds the maximum permissible limit

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