communication performance_error ai_generated true

Consumer lag exceeds threshold: N messages behind

ID: communication/mq-consumer-lag

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78%Fix Rate
83%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
any active — — —

Root Cause

Message queue consumer falling behind producers.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Scale consumer instances horizontally
  2. 88% success Optimize consumer processing speed and batch size

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Increase queue size limit indefinitely 80% fail

    Masks problem, eventually OOM

  2. Drop old messages automatically 82% fail

    Data loss