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:

  Jan 22, 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