Kafka consumer lag
Order confirmations are arriving hours late. The order-processor consumer group is 1.2 million messages behind and the gap keeps growing. Follow the events from checkout to the processor, read each stage's logs, and fix what's slowing it down.
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Logs
Open the failing component to read its logs.
Start investigating
Open the producer, read its logs, and choose the fix.
What this incident covers
- Producer (chooses the key): Kafka Intro (Beginner)
- Topic (orders, 6 partitions): Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs SQS
- Consumer group (order-processor): Backpressure & Flow Control
- Order processor (confirms orders): Queues & Pub/Sub