SQS Configuration - tomohisaota/fluent-plugin-forward-aws GitHub Wiki

SQS Paramteres

name	description
Default Visibility Timeout	Depends on your configuration. 5 min is recommended
Message Retention Period	Depends on your application
Maximum Message Size	Default value (64K) should be fine
Delivery Delay	Default value (0) should be fine
Receive Message Wait Time	Long polling. 20 sec is recommended

Tuning Visibility Timeout for load balancing

Default Visibility Timeout should not matter if you have only 1 process monitoring the queue.
If you loadbalance log processing, you need to finetune visibility timeout so that same log won't get processed twice. fluent-plugin-forward-aws may fetch 10 messages at a time.

Default Visibility Timeout > (Max time to process log chunk) x 10

If you're not sure, make it long enough. It will not matter as long as your servers are stable.