diff --git a/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/processors.py b/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/processors.py
index 42e20cec2d16c..465ec538eda81 100644
--- a/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/processors.py
+++ b/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/processors.py
@@ -87,7 +87,13 @@ def process_event(
     # keeping it around because it does provide some protection against
     # reprocessing good events if a single consumer is in a restart loop.
     deduplication_key = f"ev:{project_id}:{event_id}"
-    if cache.get(deduplication_key) is not None:
+
+    try:
+        cached_value = cache.get(deduplication_key)
+    except Exception as exc:
+        raise Retriable(exc)
+
+    if cached_value is not None:
         logger.warning(
             "pre-process-forwarder detected a duplicated event" " with id:%s for project:%s.",
             event_id,
diff --git a/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/simple_event.py b/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/simple_event.py
index e1278ab8890c0..07b09863a7552 100644
--- a/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/simple_event.py
+++ b/src/sentry/ingest/consumer/simple_event.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 
 import msgpack
-import sentry_kafka_schemas
 from arroyo.backends.kafka.consumer import KafkaPayload
 from arroyo.dlq import InvalidMessage
 from arroyo.types import BrokerValue, Message
@@ -71,23 +70,12 @@ def process_simple_event_message(
         if isinstance(exc, Retriable):
             raise
 
-        # If no retriable exception was raised, check the schema to decide whether to DLQ
+        # TODO: Remove this line once all topics (transactions, attachments,
+        # user feedback) also have DLQs
         default_topic = consumer_type_to_default_topic[consumer_type].value
-
-        # TODO: Currently, there is only a schema for ingest-events, so just continue to re-raise
-        # the exception if it's a different topic. This can be removed once attachments and transactions
-        # have schemas too.
         if default_topic != "ingest-events":
             raise
 
-        codec = sentry_kafka_schemas.get_codec(default_topic)
-
-        try:
-            codec.decode(raw_payload, validate=True)
-        except Exception:
-            raw_value = raw_message.value
-            assert isinstance(raw_value, BrokerValue)
-
-            raise InvalidMessage(raw_value.partition, raw_value.offset)
-
-        raise
+        raw_value = raw_message.value
+        assert isinstance(raw_value, BrokerValue)
+        raise InvalidMessage(raw_value.partition, raw_value.offset) from exc