Warp Insights: Understanding Kafka Consumer Group Lag Metrics

Series: Warp Insights
Host: Aratz Manterola Lasa
Subject: We delve into the challenges of monitoring Kafka consumer groups, focusing on offset lag metrics and explain how traditional offset-based monitoring can be misleading due to varying message sizes and consumption rates. To address this, you can introduce a time-based metric for a more accurate assessment of consumer group lag.

Read the blog to learn more: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/the-kafka-metric-youre-not-using-stop-counting-messages-start-measuring-time.