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Apache Kafka Consumer Lag Runbook

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: data-engineering

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Diagnoses Kafka consumer group lag using the Kafka AdminClient API and JMX metrics exposed via the Confluent Metrics API. Identifies slow consumers, topic partition hotspots, and broker rebalance storms that contribute to lag growth. Provides a step-by-step runbook to tune fetch.min.bytes, max.poll.records, and partition count.

What this skill does

Apache Kafka Consumer Lag Runbook is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the data-engineering sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Apache Kafka Consumer Lag Runbook skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\apache-kafka-consumer-lag-runbook\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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