Kafka Consumer Lag Keeps Growing. Adding More Consumers Might Do Nothing.

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Kafka Consumer Lag Keeps Growing. Adding More Consumers Might Do Nothing.

Your Kafka cluster is healthy, producers are publishing normally, and consumer pods are running, but the backlog keeps increasing because…

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