diff --git a/packages/queue/phpunit.xml b/packages/queue/phpunit.xml
index 64067c8e4..fc19630a3 100644
--- a/packages/queue/phpunit.xml
+++ b/packages/queue/phpunit.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
         >
     <testsuites>
         <testsuite name="unit">
+            <file>./tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/ConsumerResilienceTest.php</file>
             <file>./tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/LockingTest.php</file>
             <file>./tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/RedisReconnectCallbackTest.php</file>
             <file>./tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/ServerTelemetryTest.php</file>
diff --git a/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter.php b/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter.php
index 6989bced0..ce3ad8e7e 100644
--- a/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter.php
+++ b/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter.php
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ abstract class Adapter
 {
     protected const int RECEIVE_TIMEOUT = 2;
 
+    /**
+     * Pause before asking again after the broker failed to answer, so an
+     * unreachable broker is retried at a steady rate rather than in a tight loop.
+     */
+    protected const int RECEIVE_BACKOFF = 1;
+
     public Queue $queue;
     protected ?Container $context = null;
     protected bool $stopped = false;
@@ -38,14 +44,20 @@ protected function isStopped(): bool
         return $this->stopped;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param callable(Message): void $messageCallback
+     * @param callable(Message): void $successCallback
+     * @param callable(?Message, \Throwable): void $errorCallback Receives null when
+     *        the failure was in obtaining a message rather than handling one.
+     */
     public function consume(callable $messageCallback, callable $successCallback, callable $errorCallback): void
     {
         $this->stopped = false;
 
         while (!$this->isStopped()) {
-            $message = $this->consumer->receive($this->queue, static::RECEIVE_TIMEOUT);
+            $message = $this->nextMessage($errorCallback);
 
-            if (!$message instanceof \Utopia\Queue\Message) {
+            if (!$message instanceof Message) {
                 continue;
             }
 
@@ -54,6 +66,33 @@ public function consume(callable $messageCallback, callable $successCallback, ca
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Never throws: a broker that cannot be reached is reported to
+     * $errorCallback and retried after RECEIVE_BACKOFF. Losing the worker to a
+     * transient outage is worse than waiting for the broker to come back.
+     *
+     * $errorCallback takes a nullable message for exactly this case — the
+     * failure is in obtaining one, so there is none to report alongside it.
+     *
+     * @param callable(?Message, \Throwable): void $errorCallback
+     */
+    protected function nextMessage(callable $errorCallback): ?Message
+    {
+        try {
+            return $this->consumer->receive($this->queue, static::RECEIVE_TIMEOUT);
+        } catch (\Throwable $error) {
+            // A reporting hook that throws must not cost the worker either.
+            try {
+                $errorCallback(null, $error);
+            } catch (\Throwable) {
+            }
+
+            sleep(static::RECEIVE_BACKOFF);
+
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Never throws: a failed handler is rejected and reported to $errorCallback;
      * a failing reject or callback is swallowed rather than left to escape (and
diff --git a/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter/Swoole.php b/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter/Swoole.php
index 9bf90bad4..f7eac7761 100644
--- a/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter/Swoole.php
+++ b/packages/queue/src/Queue/Adapter/Swoole.php
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ public function consume(callable $messageCallback, callable $successCallback, ca
         $waitGroup = new WaitGroup();
 
         while (!$this->isStopped()) {
-            $message = $this->consumer->receive($this->queue, static::RECEIVE_TIMEOUT);
+            $message = $this->nextMessage($errorCallback);
 
             if (!$message instanceof \Utopia\Queue\Message) {
                 continue;
diff --git a/packages/queue/tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/ConsumerResilienceTest.php b/packages/queue/tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/ConsumerResilienceTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c61616ce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/queue/tests/Queue/E2E/Adapter/ConsumerResilienceTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Tests\E2E\Adapter;
+
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use Utopia\Queue\Adapter\Swoole;
+use Utopia\Queue\Broker\Redis;
+use Utopia\Queue\Consumer;
+use Utopia\Queue\Message;
+use Utopia\Queue\Queue;
+
+/**
+ * A broker outage must not cost the worker. `receive()` was called unguarded
+ * from the consume loop, so anything it threw unwound out of consume() and ended
+ * the process. Nothing retried at that level: the connection pool's internal
+ * reconnect attempts happened to delay each failure by tens of seconds, which
+ * looked like backoff but was only hiding the missing guard.
+ *
+ * The failure is reported through $errorCallback with a null message, which is
+ * what its nullable signature is for, so a consumer logs it through the same
+ * Server::error() hook it already uses for handler failures.
+ */
+final class ConsumerResilienceTest extends TestCase
+{
+    private const string QUEUE = 'resilience';
+
+    private const string NAMESPACE = 'tests';
+
+    public function testConsumeSurvivesBrokerFailuresAndResumes(): void
+    {
+        $connection = new InMemoryConnection();
+        $broker = new Redis($connection, $connection);
+        $queue = new Queue(self::QUEUE, self::NAMESPACE);
+
+        // Fails the first two receives, then delegates to the working broker.
+        $flaky = new class ($broker) implements Consumer {
+            public int $failures = 0;
+
+            public function __construct(private readonly Redis $inner) {}
+
+            public function receive(Queue $queue, int $timeout): ?Message
+            {
+                if ($this->failures < 2) {
+                    ++$this->failures;
+
+                    throw new \RuntimeException('broker unreachable');
+                }
+
+                return $this->inner->receive($queue, $timeout);
+            }
+
+            public function commit(Queue $queue, Message $message): void
+            {
+                $this->inner->commit($queue, $message);
+            }
+
+            public function reject(Queue $queue, Message $message): void
+            {
+                $this->inner->reject($queue, $message);
+            }
+
+            public function close(): void
+            {
+                $this->inner->close();
+            }
+        };
+
+        $processed = 0;
+        /** @var list<string> $reported */
+        $reported = [];
+        $reportedMessages = [];
+
+        \Swoole\Coroutine\run(function () use ($broker, $flaky, $queue, &$processed, &$reported, &$reportedMessages): void {
+            $broker->enqueue($queue, ['n' => 1]);
+
+            $adapter = new class ($flaky, 1, self::QUEUE, self::NAMESPACE) extends Swoole {
+                // Keep the test quick; the production pause is RECEIVE_BACKOFF seconds.
+                protected const int RECEIVE_BACKOFF = 0;
+            };
+
+            $adapter->consume(
+                function () use ($adapter, &$processed): void {
+                    ++$processed;
+                    $adapter->stop();
+                },
+                fn(): null => null,
+                function (?Message $message, \Throwable $error) use (&$reported, &$reportedMessages): void {
+                    $reported[] = $error->getMessage();
+                    $reportedMessages[] = $message;
+                },
+            );
+        });
+
+        $this->assertSame(2, $flaky->failures, 'both failures were absorbed rather than escaping');
+        $this->assertSame(1, $processed, 'the loop resumed and drained the queue');
+        $this->assertSame(['broker unreachable', 'broker unreachable'], $reported, 'each failure was reported');
+        $this->assertSame([null, null], $reportedMessages, 'reported without a message, since none was obtained');
+    }
+}