Kafka Consumer Lag Keeps Growing After Scaling Consumers
You added more consumer pods and lag is still climbing. The bottleneck is almost never too few consumers. It is partition count, a poison message, a slow downstream write, or rebalance thrash.
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Postgres Autovacuum Stalled by a Long-Running Transaction
Dead tuples climb, the table bloats, and VACUUM logs say dead but not yet removable. One forgotten transaction is pinning the xmin horizon so vacuum reclaims nothing. Find and kill it.