Understanding and managing lag in AMQ Streams clusters

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Issue

  • A diagnostic tool such as kafka-consumer-groups.sh, or the Streams console, is reporting lag for some partitions. What does this mean? Does it matter? What can be done about it?

Environment

  • Red Hat streams for Apache kafka (AMQ Streams)
    • All versions

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