How to put a job to Dead using Sidekiq?

Question

Is it possible, when catching an error in a job, to put this job in dead?

Something like:

class MyJob < ApplicationJob
  queue_as :default
  sidekiq_options retry: 5

  rescue_from MyError do
    # This is where I have to put the job in dead.
  end

  def perform(document)
    ...
  end
end

If your intention is to just stop the job from retrying ... why not just return true and allow it to be marked as complete? — Jon, Nov 03 '21 at 07:52
@Jon For these errors, I need to put the job in dead so that it can be tracked there. I also need to notify the support about all jobs from dead. — RomanOks, Nov 03 '21 at 08:01
Then I'd recommend using something like sentry.io to do this rather than manually monitoring the dead queue. You can configure `death_handlers` to handle this for you. — Jon, Nov 03 '21 at 08:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '21 at 07:56

As per this question ... you cannot dynamically do this within your job. Your best option would be to set the retries to zero.

From the documentation ... Skip retries, send a failed job straight to the Dead set:

class NonRetryableWorker
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  sidekiq_options retry: 0

  def perform(...)
  end
end

How to put a job to Dead using Sidekiq?

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