diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/Dockerfile b/packages/queue-manager/Dockerfile
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+FROM node:14.18-alpine
+
+# Run everything after as non-privileged user.
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY package.json .
+COPY yarn.lock .
+COPY tsconfig.json .
+COPY .eslintrc .
+
+COPY /packages/queue-manager/package.json ./packages/queue-manager/package.json
+
+RUN yarn install --pure-lockfile
+
+ADD /packages/queue-manager ./packages/queue-manager
+RUN yarn workspace @omnivore/queue-manager build
+
+# After building, fetch the production dependencies
+RUN rm -rf /app/packages/queue-manager/node_modules
+RUN rm -rf /app/node_modules
+RUN yarn install --pure-lockfile --production
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+CMD ["yarn", "workspace", "@omnivore/queue-manager", "start"]
+
diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/mocha-config.json b/packages/queue-manager/mocha-config.json
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/mocha-config.json
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+{
+    "extension": ["ts"],
+    "spec": "test/**/*.test.ts",
+    "require": "test/babel-register.js"
+  }
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diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/package.json b/packages/queue-manager/package.json
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "@omnivore/queue-manager",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "main": "build/src/index.js",
+  "files": [
+    "build/src"
+  ],
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "yarn mocha -r ts-node/register --config mocha-config.json",
+    "lint": "eslint src --ext ts,js,tsx,jsx",
+    "compile": "tsc",
+    "build": "tsc",
+    "start": "functions-framework --target=queueManager",
+    "dev": "concurrently \"tsc -w\" \"nodemon --watch ./build/ --exec npm run start\""
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "chai": "^4.3.6",
+    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^4.0.0",
+    "mocha": "^10.0.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@google-cloud/functions-framework": "3.1.2",
+    "@google-cloud/monitoring": "^4.0.0",
+    "@google-cloud/tasks": "^4.0.0",
+    "@sentry/serverless": "^6.16.1",
+    "axios": "^1.4.0",
+    "dotenv": "^16.0.1",
+    "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1"
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/src/index.ts b/packages/queue-manager/src/index.ts
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/src/index.ts
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+import { MetricServiceClient } from '@google-cloud/monitoring'
+import { v2beta3 } from '@google-cloud/tasks'
+import fetch from 'node-fetch'
+import * as dotenv from 'dotenv'
+
+import * as Sentry from '@sentry/serverless'
+
+dotenv.config()
+Sentry.GCPFunction.init({
+  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,
+  tracesSampleRate: 0,
+})
+
+const PROJECT_ID = process.env.PROJECT_ID
+const LOCATION = 'us-west2'
+const IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME = process.env.IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME
+const RSS_QUEUE_NAME = process.env.RSS_FEED_QUEUE_NAME
+const QUEUE_NAMES = [IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME, RSS_QUEUE_NAME]
+const DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL = process.env.DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL
+const METRICS_FILTER = `metric.type="appengine.googleapis.com/http/server/response_latencies" metric.labels.response_code="200"`
+
+if (
+  !PROJECT_ID ||
+  !IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME ||
+  !RSS_QUEUE_NAME ||
+  !DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL
+) {
+  throw new Error('environment not supplied.')
+}
+
+const LATENCY_THRESHOLD = 500
+const RSS_QUEUE_THRESHOLD = 20_000
+const IMPORT_QUEUE_THRESHOLD = 100_000
+
+const postToDiscord = async (message: string) => {
+  console.log('notify message', { message })
+  const payload = {
+    content: message,
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch(DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      body: JSON.stringify(payload),
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      },
+    })
+
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      throw new Error(`Discord response was not ok: ${response.statusText}`)
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('Failed to post message to Discord:', error)
+  }
+}
+
+const checkShouldPauseQueues = async () => {
+  const now = Date.now()
+  const client = new MetricServiceClient()
+
+  // Query for the metrics from the last 5 minutes
+  const [timeSeries] = await client.listTimeSeries({
+    name: client.projectPath(PROJECT_ID),
+    filter: METRICS_FILTER,
+    interval: {
+      startTime: {
+        seconds: Math.floor(now / 1000 - 5 * 60),
+      },
+      endTime: {
+        seconds: Math.floor(now / 1000),
+      },
+    },
+    aggregation: {
+      alignmentPeriod: {
+        seconds: 300,
+      },
+      perSeriesAligner: 'ALIGN_PERCENTILE_95',
+    },
+  })
+
+  let shouldPauseQueues = false
+
+  for (const ts of timeSeries) {
+    // We only want to look at the backend service right now
+    if (
+      !ts.resource ||
+      !ts.resource.labels ||
+      !ts.resource.labels['module_id'] ||
+      !ts.resource.labels['module_id'].startsWith('backend')
+    ) {
+      continue
+    }
+
+    if (ts.points && ts.points.length) {
+      const avgLatency =
+        ts.points.reduce(
+          (acc, point) => acc + (point.value?.doubleValue ?? 0),
+          0
+        ) / ts.points.length
+      console.log('avgLatency: ', avgLatency)
+      if (avgLatency > LATENCY_THRESHOLD) {
+        shouldPauseQueues = true
+        break
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return shouldPauseQueues
+}
+
+const getQueueTaskCount = async (queueName: string) => {
+  const cloudTasksClient = new v2beta3.CloudTasksClient()
+  const queuePath = cloudTasksClient.queuePath(PROJECT_ID, LOCATION, queueName)
+  const [queue] = await cloudTasksClient.getQueue({
+    name: queuePath,
+    readMask: { paths: ['name', 'stats'] },
+  })
+
+  console.log(' queue.stats', { stats: queue.stats })
+  if (Number.isNaN(queue.stats?.tasksCount)) {
+    return 0
+  }
+  return Number(queue.stats?.tasksCount)
+}
+
+const pauseQueues = async () => {
+  const cloudTasksClient = new v2beta3.CloudTasksClient()
+
+  await Promise.all([
+    cloudTasksClient.pauseQueue({
+      name: cloudTasksClient.queuePath(PROJECT_ID, LOCATION, RSS_QUEUE_NAME),
+    }),
+    cloudTasksClient.pauseQueue({
+      name: cloudTasksClient.queuePath(PROJECT_ID, LOCATION, IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME),
+    }),
+  ])
+}
+
+async function checkMetricsAndPauseQueues() {
+  if (
+    !PROJECT_ID ||
+    !IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME ||
+    !RSS_QUEUE_NAME ||
+    !DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL
+  ) {
+    throw new Error('environment not supplied.')
+  }
+
+  const shouldPauseQueues = await checkShouldPauseQueues()
+
+  if (shouldPauseQueues) {
+    const rssQueueCount = await getQueueTaskCount(RSS_QUEUE_NAME)
+    const importQueueCount = await getQueueTaskCount(IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME)
+    const message = `Both queues have been paused due to API latency threshold exceedance.\n\t-The RSS queue currently has ${rssQueueCount} tasks.\n\t-The import queue currently has ${importQueueCount} pending tasks.`
+
+    // Pause the two queues
+    await pauseQueues()
+
+    // Post to Discord server using webhook
+    await postToDiscord(message)
+  } else {
+    const rssQueueCount = await getQueueTaskCount(RSS_QUEUE_NAME)
+    const importQueueCount = await getQueueTaskCount(IMPORT_QUEUE_NAME)
+
+    if (rssQueueCount > RSS_QUEUE_THRESHOLD) {
+      await postToDiscord(
+        `The RSS queue has exceeded it's threshold, it has ${rssQueueCount} items in it.`
+      )
+    }
+
+    if (importQueueCount > IMPORT_QUEUE_THRESHOLD) {
+      await postToDiscord(
+        `The import queue has exceeded it's threshold, it has ${importQueueCount} items in it.`
+      )
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+export const queueManager = Sentry.GCPFunction.wrapHttpFunction(
+  async (req, res) => {
+    try {
+      checkMetricsAndPauseQueues()
+      res.send('ok')
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error('Error while parsing RSS feed', e)
+      res.status(500).send('INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR')
+    }
+  }
+)
diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/test/babel-register.js b/packages/queue-manager/test/babel-register.js
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/test/babel-register.js
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+const register = require('@babel/register').default
+
+register({ extensions: ['.ts', '.tsx', '.js', '.jsx'] })
diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/test/stub.test.ts b/packages/queue-manager/test/stub.test.ts
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index 000000000..24ad25c8f
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/test/stub.test.ts
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+import 'mocha'
+import { expect } from 'chai'
+
+describe('stub test', () => {
+  it('should pass', () => {
+    expect(true).to.be.true
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/queue-manager/tsconfig.json b/packages/queue-manager/tsconfig.json
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+++ b/packages/queue-manager/tsconfig.json
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+{
+  "extends": "./../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "outDir": "build",
+    "rootDir": "."
+  },
+  "include": ["src"]
+}