You are monitoring an Azure Stream Analytics job. You discover that the Backlogged input Events metric is increasing slowly and is consistently non-zero. You need to ensure that the job can handle…

The correct answer is D. Increase the number of streaming units (SUs). Backlogged Input Events: Number of input events that are backlogged. A non-zero value for this metric implies that your job isn't able to keep up with the number of incoming events. If this value is slowly increasing or consistently non-zero, you should scale out your job, by…

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You are monitoring an Azure Stream Analytics job. You discover that the Backlogged input Events metric is increasing slowly and is consistently non-zero. You need to ensure that the job can handle all the events. What should you do?

Options

ARemove any named consumer groups from the connection and use $default.
BChange the compatibility level of the Stream Analytics job.
CCreate an additional output stream for the existing input stream.
DIncrease the number of streaming units (SUs).

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Backlogged Input Events: Number of input events that are backlogged. A non-zero value for this metric implies that your job isn't able to keep up with the number of incoming events. If this value is slowly increasing or consistently non-zero, you should scale out your job, by increasing the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-monitoring

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