Performance · Difficulty 1 of 5 · 10 min
Processor idle while the backlog grows
The processor runs but handles nothing while its backlog climbs steadily, and nothing alerts anyone. The team keeps its approved settings for this pipeline in its own documentation. Find them and restore normal throughput.
Where the symptom shows: SQS
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