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What metrics and alerts would you configure for consumer backlog?
Tests whether you'd alert on consumer lag trend (not just absolute value) alongside records-consumed-rate and time-since-last-commit, since a flat lag at a high number is healthy while a steadily rising lag at a low number is the real early warning.
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