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title: New Pause & Purge APIs for Queues
description: Queues now supports the ability to pause delivery and/or delete messages from a queue, allowing you to better manage queue backlogs.
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## New Pause & Purge APIs for Queues

Mar 27, 2025 

[ Queues ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/) 

[Queues](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/) now supports the ability to pause message delivery and/or purge (delete) messages on a queue. These operations can be useful when:

* Your consumer has a bug or downtime, and you want to temporarily stop messages from being processed while you fix the bug
* You have pushed invalid messages to a queue due to a code change during development, and you want to clean up the backlog
* Your queue has a backlog that is stale and you want to clean it up to allow new messages to be consumed

To pause a queue using [Wrangler](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/), run the `pause-delivery` command. Paused queues continue to receive messages. And you can easily unpause a queue using the `resume-delivery` command.

Pause and resume a queue

```

$ wrangler queues pause-delivery my-queue

Pausing message delivery for queue my-queue.

Paused message delivery for queue my-queue.


$ wrangler queues resume-delivery my-queue

Resuming message delivery for queue my-queue.

Resumed message delivery for queue my-queue.


```

Purging a queue permanently deletes all messages in the queue. Unlike pausing, purging is an irreversible operation:

Purge a queue

```

$ wrangler queues purge my-queue

✔ This operation will permanently delete all the messages in queue my-queue. Type my-queue to proceed. … my-queue

Purged queue 'my-queue'


```

You can also do these operations using the [Queues REST API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/queues/), or the dashboard page for a queue.

![Pause and purge using the dashboard](https://developers.cloudflare.com/_astro/pause-purge.SQ7B3RCF_2dqU5K.webp) 

This feature is available on all new and existing queues. Head over to the [pause and purge documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/configuration/pause-purge) to learn more. And if you haven't used Cloudflare Queues before, [get started with the Cloudflare Queues guide](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/get-started).