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Kafka Consumer Lag Is the Metric Everyone Collects—and Almost Everyone Misunderstands

Collecting Kafka consumer lag is easy. Understanding what it actually means is much harder. Here's why offsets alone are not enough to operate Kafka in production.

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Kafka Consumer Lag Is the Metric Everyone Collects—and Almost Everyone Misunderstands
Collecting Kafka consumer lag is easy. Understanding what it actually means is much harder. Here's why offsets alone are not enough to operate Kafka in production.