title: Azure ServiceBus Queue Timing Out
body: <p>Encountering a strange issue with one of our queues (for production, no less). When I try to put a message onto the queue, it's throwing an exception that simply states:</p>
  
  <pre><code>A timeout has occurred during the operation
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The messages do seem to be making it onto the queue, as evidenced by the fact that I can see the queue length increasing in the management portal. However, the client application is not receiving any messages.</p>
  
  <p>The management portal shows that there have been several failed requests, and also several internal server exceptions; though unfortunately I don't see any way to get more details about those failed requests and errors.</p>
  
  <p>I'm somewhat at a loss as to what may have caused this, how to get more information about what's wrong, and how to move ahead in troubleshooting this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p><em>edit: I should mention just for completeness sake, that I did not make any changes to the clients that I'm aware of; This issue just sort of started happening all of a sudden</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>edit #2, woke up this morning, and things have magically returned to normal. Still not sure what happened, so I'd like to change the tone of the question to solicit suggestions as to how this kind of thing may be mitigated and/or troubleshooted (troubleshot? troubleshat? :) ) better</strong></p>