Kafka Consumer Lag Monitoring

Rohit Choudhary, CEO of Acceldata, discussed understanding consumer lag in Kafka clusters and its importance for real-time business insights. Consumer lag is a delay between a consumer's most recent committed offset and the producer's end offset in the log. It can be caused by complex logic, stuck consumers, slow message processing, or more messages produced than consumed. Rebalance events due to new consumer additions or crashed consumer processes also contribute to consumer lag. Acceldata provides a unified dashboard for Kafka monitoring and allows enterprises to scale technology adoption without operational blindness. The platform's Kafka dashboard displays metrics such as Kafka streaming details, producer, topic, and consumer information, as well as Kafka events and other charts to optimize Kafka analysis and reduce consumer lag.