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CCDAK · Question #205
You have a Kafka client application that has real-time processing requirements. Which Kafka metric should you monitor?
The correct answer is A. Consumer lag between brokers and consumers. Monitoring consumer lag between brokers and consumers is essential for real-time processing, as it indicates how far behind the consumer is from the latest data, directly affecting processing
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Question
You have a Kafka client application that has real-time processing requirements. Which Kafka metric should you monitor?
Options
- AConsumer lag between brokers and consumers
- BTotal time to serve requests to replica followers
- CConsumer heartbeat rate to group coordinator
- DAggregate incoming byte rate
How the community answered
(45 responses)- A89% (40)
- B2% (1)
- C2% (1)
- D7% (3)
Explanation
Monitoring consumer lag between brokers and consumers is essential for real-time processing, as it indicates how far behind the consumer is from the latest data, directly affecting processing
Topics
#consumer lag#real-time processing#Kafka metrics#throughput monitoring
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