Define Trigger.dev v4 queues with concurrencyLimit and isolate per-tenant throughput with concurrencyKey
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Documented steps
Create a reusable queue: `import { queue } from "@trigger.dev/sdk"; export const myQueue = queue({ name: "my-queue", concurrencyLimit: 1 });` then assign it to tasks so they share one limit (https://trigger.dev/docs/queue-concurrency).
Or configure inline on a single task: `task({ id: "one-at-a-time", queue: { concurrencyLimit: 1 }, run: ... })`.
For per-tenant isolation on a shared queue, pass `concurrencyKey` at trigger time: `await generatePullRequest.trigger(data, { queue: "free-users", concurrencyKey: data.userId });`
Override the queue per run at trigger time with `{ queue: "paid-users" }`.
Account for environment-level concurrency: the environment has a base limit plus a burstable limit (default burst factor 2.0x base); an individual queue is capped at the base limit, not the burst capacity.
Give subtasks their own queue config explicitly — subtasks do not inherit the parent task's queue.
Watch queue depth and concurrency in the dashboard when tuning limits.
Known gotchas
v4 requires queues to be declared ahead of time via `queue()` (or a task's `queue` config) rather than invented at trigger time.
Only actively executing runs count toward `concurrencyLimit`; delayed or queued runs consume no slot until they start.
The 2.0x burst factor applies at environment level only — one queue can never exceed the base limit even when the environment can burst.
Without `concurrencyKey`, every tenant triggering the same queue shares one concurrency pool and a single heavy tenant starves the rest.
Subtasks run on their own queue unless specified, so a parent-level limit does not throttle the work its children do.
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